Unburying the Bones, Victoria Buitron’s debut poetry collection, is filled with language that pulses close to the earth, exploring how identity, survival, and love are carried in a woman’s body so as to reclaim and celebrate sex as pleasure and the body as home. Victoria will be joined on stage for a reading and Q&A by Susie Ximenez, Executive Director of Adelante Student Voices.
About the book
Unburying the Bones is a book of poetry that serves as an ode to those with grief lingering in their bodies, latent or bubbling--but always present--either in the firm of their ribcage or the soft of their thighs. The poems bring to the fore pain made corporeal, the roots of misogyny, femicide, and the depths of matrilineality. It is an exploration of intimacy while reflecting on the lengths society has gone to subdue women. The writer reclaims sex as pleasure, her body as home, and her fear into drive.
About Victoria Buitron
Victoria Buitron is a writer who hails from Ecuador and resides in Connecticut. She received an MFA in creative writing from Fairfield University. Her debut memoir-in-essays, A Body Across Two Hemispheres (Woodhall Press), was the 2021 Fairfield Book Prize winner. In 2023, she received the Artistic Excellence Award from the Connecticut Office of the Arts, which also receives federal funding. She has been the series editor for the Connecticut Literary Anthology since 2023. Craigardan, Tin House, GrubStreet, Sundress Publications, VONA and more organizations have championed her work through grants or writing residencies. Her debut poetry collection, Unburying the Bones, is 2025's VersoFrontera inaugural prize winner and will be published by Texas Review Press.
About Susie Ximenez
Raised in the Hudson Valley, Susie grew up watching her parents navigate a new language to provide a better life for their family. Inspired by their resilience, she pursued her passion for the arts, Susie has collaborated with Arts-Mid Hudson, curating exhibits centered on migration and queer Latinx identity. As the Executive Director of Adelante Student Voices, she aims to be a catalyst for change for undocumented youth, transforming learning environments to be more equitable. Through her advocacy within the school district, Susie is committed to expanding access to higher education for undocumented students by driving essential reforms.