Sun, Apr 12
|Torch Center
Wildfire Reading Series featuring Chiagoziem Jideofor
Presented by Host Publications and Torch Literary Arts. Join us for the launch of local remedies!
Time & Location
Apr 12, 2026, 11:00 AM CDT
Torch Center, 6406 N Interstate 35 Frontage Rd suite 1807, Austin, TX 78752, USA
About the event
Torch Literary Arts is thrilled to welcome Chiagoziem Jideofor to the Wildfire Reading Series to celebrate the launch of local remedies, published by Host Publications!
Reading and conversation. A book signing will follow. Light refreshments provided.
About the Book
local remedies cuts an unexpected path through inherited colonial histories, exploring Igbo stories through the winding footsteps of memory and myth, which illuminate the experience of trauma to be nonlinear. This book asks us to share in its humanity, naming our collective need for regenerative remedies, both old and new.
Chiagoziem Jideofor is Queer and Igbo. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Michigan Quarterly Review, South Carolina Review, berlin lit, The Lincoln Review, Passages North, Commonwealth’s ADDA, the Minnesota Review, Sho Poetry Journal, MAYDAY, and elsewhere. She earned an MFA from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, and is currently a PhD student at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.