Please join Black Mountain Institute on Thursday, Feb. 22 at 7 p.m. for a reading and conversation with writer, editor, and voice actress Tajja Isen. This program will be introduced by Amanda Fortini.
Tajja Isen is the author of Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service, named a Best Book of the Year by Electric Literature, The Globe and Mail, CBC Books, and Daily Hive. As an editor, she has worked at Catapult and The Walrus, and she is co-editor of the essay anthology The World as We Knew It: Dispatches from a Changing Climate. She has written for The Atlantic, Vulture, Time, and Longreads, among other outlets. Her next book is a memoir of mentorship and ambition.
A voice actor for over two decades, Tajja can be heard on such animated shows as Atomic Betty, The Berenstain Bears, Super Why!, Go Dog Go, My Big Big Friend, Jane and the Dragon, and many others.
Parking/getting there: The Beverly Theater is located next to The Writer’s Block at 515 S 6th St, Las Vegas, NV 89101. Street parking is available off Bonneville between 6th and 10th. For additional information about parking/getting to The Beverly Theater, please visit the website.
Questions? Please email blackmountaininstitute@unlv.edu or call (702) 895-5542.
This program is funded in part by a grant from Nevada Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
