An Afternoon of Prose with Tyler Wetherall & Krystal Anali Vazquez (in person at HVWC)
Tyler Wetherall is a journalist and author. Her debut novel, Amphibian, was released in 2024. Her first book, No Way Home: A Memoir of Life on the Run, came out in 2018 from St. Martin’s Press, following her childhood spent on the run with her fugitive father. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, British Vogue, The Guardian, National Geographic, LitHub, Vice, and Condé Nast Traveler, amongst others. Tyler has made appearances on podcasts and radio including BBC Outlook, Good Life Project, and Radiotopia’s Criminal. She is also the creator of Reading the City, a weekly newsletter of bookish events taking place around New York City. Her writing is represented by Emma Parry at Janklow & Nesbit Associates. She is currently the senior editor at James Beard award-winning drinks magazine SevenFifty Daily and lives in Brooklyn with her husband.
Krystal Anali Vazquez is a writer and an attorney from Los Angeles living in Brooklyn. Her work navigates the roads in the México lindo of her family’s past and present with those above the border. She holds degrees from Loyola Marymount University, Georgetown, and Columbia Law School. At Georgetown, she was a fellow in the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice. There, she was also awarded the Community Scholars Program Teaching Assistantship and Scholarship, allowing her to serve as teaching assistant for the program where she taught and mentored many first-generation college students. During law school, Krystal participated in the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic in addition to providing pro bono assistance for immigrant communities at Catholic Charities and African Services Committee in Manhattan.