La Gorda: A Speculative Exploration

Emerging Writer Series

Every two weeks or so I am publishing an essay from an emerging writer. This week, we are publishing “La Gorda: A Speculative Exploration” by Ainhoa Palacios. Ainhoa is an emerging Peruvian-American writer splitting her time between Colorado and Florida. She is a fiction candidate in Colorado State University’s MFA program. Her writing explores themes o…