Isela Xitlali Gómez R. is an East LA/Inland Empire transplant who writes to piece together broken stories of family, trauma, and travel a la Southern California. Her art lays its roots in the spaces between jazz and mariachi, taco trucks and chili cheese burgers, oceans and desert and, now snow. Isela is a 2015 Winner of the Loft Literary Center's Mentor Series in Creative Nonfiction and a 2017 Beyond the Pure Fellow through Intermedia Arts. Her essay, “It Happened in Fragments,” can be found in How Dare We! Write, an anthology of writers of color on the writing life and process.
What Remains and What She Takes with Her
Artist and writer Isela Xitlali Gómez R. shares her perspective on the Walker’s performances of What Remains by Will Rawls and Claudia Rankine.