Emilly Prado

DJ at EVENT | Golpetazo del Año
2026-05-02 17:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Casa Mariposa, 565 12th St., Astoria, 97103, United States
This unique fundraiser for Consejo Hispano *breaks barriers* and builds community with a car smashing event, piñata party, silent auctions, delicious food, and excellent tunes provided by DJ Mami Miami. Don’t miss it!

SPEAKING | PNCA Commencement 2026
2026-05-10 17:30 - 19:00 | Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave, Portland, Oregon, United States
Emilly Prado is honored to serve as the keynote commencement speaker for the Pacific Northwest College of Art’s class of 2026!
Learn more about the event here.

DJ at EVENT | Oregon Labor United Launch
2026-05-13 18:00 - 20:30 | Hyatt Regency Convention Center, 375 NE Holladay Street, Portland, Oregon, 97232
DJ Mami Miami will be performing at Hyatt Regency Convention Center 375 NE Holladay St Portland, OR 97232 United States

DJ at EVENT | Dress for Success Oregon
2026-05-16 | The Loft at 8th Avenue, 2010 SE 8th Ave., Portland, Oregon, 97214
DJ Mami Miami will be performing at Dress for Success Oregon, 2010 SE 8th Ave, Portland, OR 97214.

DJ at WEDDING
2026-05-23 - 2026-05-24 | Ecotrust Building, 721 NW 9th Ave., Portland, Oregon, 97209
Ceremony and reception services for two sweet clients and their loved ones.

DJ at WEDDING
2026-05-30 00:00 - 23:59 | The Laurelhurst Club, 3721 SE Ankeny St, Portland, 97214, United States

DJ at WEDDING
2026-05-31 00:00 - 23:59 | Columbia Gorge Hotel, 4000 Westcliff Dr, Hood River, 97031, United States

DJ at WEDDING
2026-06-13 00:00 - 23:59, 2026-09-12 - 2026-09-13 | Jupiter NEXT, 900 E Burnside St, Portland, 97214, United States

DJ at WEDDING
2026-06-14 00:00 - 23:59 | Abernethy Center, 606 15th St., Oregon City, 97045, United States

DJ at WEDDING
2026-06-20 00:00 - 23:59 | Mt. Hood Skibowl, 87000 US-26, Government Camp, 97028, United States

LRCW Reading: Sara Jaffe, Emilly Prado, Jay Ponteri, & Sara Vetiver
2026-06-22 18:30 - 20:00 | Word Virus Books, 203 Southwest 9th Avenue, Portland, Oregon, 97205
Join the LRCW program for a reading at Word Virus featuring Sara Jaffe, Emilly Prado, Jay Ponteri, & Sara Vetiver.

Emilly Prado is an award-winning writer, educator, and cultural worker living in Portland, Oregon. She is the author of Funeral for Flaca (Future Tense Books, 2021), a Pacific Northwest Book Award–winning essay collection praised by Ms. Magazine as “utterly vulnerable, bold, and unique,” and Examining Assimilation (Enslow, 2019), a nonfiction interdisciplinary book at the intersections of culture, history, and identity for youth readers. As an educator, Emilly has taught in public high schools, correctional facilities, MFA programs, and through organizations such as Tin House, Literary Arts, Corporeal Writing, Lighthouse Writers Workshop, and the Independent Publishing Resource Center. Her writing has appeared in 30+ outlets including NPR, Marie Claire, and Eater, and has been supported by fellowships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Oregon Humanities, and Randolph College, amongst others. She is a co-founder of BIPOC arts non-profit, Portland in Color, and the Latiné DJ collective, Noche Libre. Currently at work on her debut memoir, Emilly also teaches creative writing at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. Learn more at emillyprado.com or @emillygprado.
Funeral for Flaca (essay collection) (+ FFF excerpt links)
“More Than Words” (longform multimedia journalism)
“How ‘To the Bone’ Contributes to the Whitewashing of Eating Disorders” (cultural criticism + personal essay)
Bitch Media archive (cultural criticism, reviews, music journalism, etc)

SPEAKING | Low-Res Creative Writing MFA at PNCA
2026-06-27 09:00 - 10:00 | Google Meet
The Whole Truth, the Half Truth, and Something Like the Truth.” Examining memory may be what initially draws some of us towards writing, but the truth is our memories are malleable and the line between fiction and fact can feel blurry, especially when invoking imagination. The boundaries of truth, it turns out, aren’t universally drawn. So how do we write into the spaces we can’t remember or the moments where contradictions abound? The times we want to paint as black or white, but where gray seems to be the only color available in our palettes? This lecture examines truth as a spectrum, culling scientific data alongside quotes from writers with varying perspectives on what counts as ‘nonfiction’. We’ll walk away with generative prompts and exercises to sharpen our craft while guiding us towards carving our very own lines of truth. Open to the public via Google Meet for free and in person at 721 NW 9th Ave, Graduate Professional Center, EcoTrust Building.
Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cfs-ktvd-pto

Hey Doc Clinic Block Party & Grand Re-Opening
2026-06-28 12:00 - 17:00 | Hey Doc Clinic, 1221 SE Madison Street, Portland, Oregon
COMMUNITY CARE BLOCK PARTY!
Come outside, come together, come as you are to experience a full afternoon of joy, healthcare, and community love!
Bring your people. Bring your kids. Bring yourself.
We’re taking it to the parking lot of our new building to celebrate the inner SE healers, movers, artists, and most importantly, YOU.
Our community deserves care that feels like home, and that’s exactly what we’re building together.
SE Portland Heath & Wellness BIPOC, queer and trans healthcare providers who are building the world we deserve.
This is one way community care can look, not just appointments and waiting rooms, but moments for us to share together in the fullness of who we are.
Come for the community. Stay for the joy. Leave feeling held.

Kangkang Li Kovacs in Conversation With Emilly Prado
2026-06-29 19:00 - 20:00 | Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St, Portland, Oregon, 97209, United States
Inspired by the author’s own family history, and spanning the past hundred years of Chinese history, Kangkang Li Kovacs’s multi-generational family saga explores how women survive the tsunamis of history.

Nothing to My Name (Viking) chronicles the intertwined fates of three generations of Chinese women: Ah Xue, Mimosa, and Fei. The Grandmother, Ah Xue, witnesses the rise of the Communist Revolution while earning a meager living combing the hair of the few wealthy ladies in her small fishing village. Mimosa, the Mother, grows up in the shadow of her parents’ struggles as the growing tension of the Cultural Revolution threatens to pull their family apart. And Fei Fei, the Daughter, brought up as a “boy” by her activist father, grapples with gender identity in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

Awash in the tides of societal upheaval, Ah Xue, Mimosa, and Fei Fei are all driven by the instinct to survive, weathering hardship that splinters the boundary between the personal and the political. For readers of sweeping fiction like Pachinko and Homegoing, Nothing to My Name is a braided history of suffering and dignity, of loss and reckoning, and of the unexpected joy that sustains family bonds.

Kovacs will be joined in conversation by Emilly Prado, author of Funeral for Flaca.

DJ at EVENT | Interior Design Society of Portland Summer Party
2026-07-14 | Jupiter NEXT, 900 E Burnside St, Portland, 97214, United States
DJ Mami Miami will be performing at Jupiter NEXT, 900 E Burnside St, Portland, OR 97214

DJ at WEDDING
2026-07-18 00:00 - 23:59 | The Evergreen, 618 SE Alder Street, Portland, 97214, United States

The Shape of a Feeling: Experiments in Lyric Essay and Hybrid Forms
2026-08-02 11:00 - 14:00 | Zoom
Hosted by McCormack Writing Center via Zoom. Sign up here!
What happens when a story refuses to stay linear? Sometimes that story needs to be told slant—or squiggly, or sparsely, or outside the margins entirely. In this generative craft intensive, we’ll explore hybrid and lyric forms that blur the line between poetry and prose, image and text, memory and imagination. We’ll look at writers who try to define the undefinable, and who follow the threads of their truths outside chronology by looking to fragments, letters, and lists.
We’ll read work that resists neat classification but may be referred to as hermit crabs, braids, essayettes, hermit crabs, and/or epistolary by writers such as Chet’la Sebree, Traci Brimhall, Chelsea Biondolillo, Randon Billings Noble, Ross Gay, Elissa Washuta, Carmen Maria Machado, and Anna Joy Springer, among others.
Through short writing bursts, close readings, and playful experimentation, you’ll be invited to try on new forms—or invent your own. This intensive is a rich springboard for writers feeling stuck or simply seeking fresh inspiration and new ways of seeing. While we won’t be able to cover every possibility, you’ll walk away with a robust reading list and plenty of generative starts to fuel future experiments. The class is designed for those new to hybrid writing, but all genres and experience levels are welcome.. Come ready to write, explore, and delight in the expansive possibilities of form. A full reading list with PDFs will be emailed in advance.
OUTCOMES:– Students will walk away with a deeper understanding of lyric and hybrid definitions– Students will experiment and play with short writing prompt bursts with opportunities to share– Students will read, analyze, and discuss model texts together– Students will learn foundational experimental craft forms to incorporate into future writing projects
ScholarshipWe have one scholarship available for this intensive. Scholarships are awarded via a random lottery drawn at least a week before the intensive. Please submit your name here to enter.

DJ at WEDDING
2026-08-08 | Salishan Lodge, 7760 US 101, Gleneden Beach, Oregon, 97388

DJ at WEDDING
2026-08-22 | Mount Tom House, 34251 Mt Tom Dr, Harrisburg, Oregon, 97446

DJ at EVENT | Noche Bella 2026
2026-09-18 17:00 - 22:30 | Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave, Portland, Oregon, United States
DJ Mami Miami will be performing at Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR 97205

DJ at WEDDING
2026-09-19 | Jenkins Estate, 8005 SW Grabhorn Road, Beaverton, Oregon, 97007

DJ at WEDDING
2026-09-26 00:00 - 23:59 | Blockhouse, 1988 NW 18th Ave, Portland, 97208, United States

DJ at EVENT | Brilla Bienestar Gala After Party 2026
2026-10-02 17:30 - 21:00 | Venetian Hillsboro, 253 E Main St, Hillsboro, Oregon, 97123, United States
DJ Mami Miami will be performing at Brilla Bienestar Gala After Party 2026, 253 E Main St, Hillsboro, OR 97123
