# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Kristen Millares Young, author of the new memoir Desire Lines
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 15 Oct, 2026 at 04:30 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: Join us Oct. 15 for a conversation with journalist and novelist Kristen Millares Young, author of the new memoir Desire Lines, an exploration of her Cuban and Spanish matrilineal heritage and a meditation on selfhood, motherhood, the feminine divine and the possibilities for women’s liberation. 

4:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 15
University at Albany 
Campus Center West Boardroom
1400 Washington Ave., Albany NY 12222 
Free and open to the public.
Books will be available for purchase, and a signing will follow the conversation

Acclaimed author Luis Alberto Urrea called the book an "explosive and daring collection." Young is also the author of the novel Subduction, a finalist for two International Latino Book Awards.

Cosponsored by the University at Albany’s Department of Africana, Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies in honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, and by the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies.​
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/albany/kristen-millares-young-author-of-the-new-memoir-desire-lines/200030829567038
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, health-wellness, meditation
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 8

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Albany
- **state**: NY
- **country**: United States
- **location**: University At Albany
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- **full address**: University At Albany, 1400 Washington Ave, Albany, NY 12222-0100, United States

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