San Miguel de Allende

Poetry & Prose Cafés

@ Sala Quetzal

 Present

“Trouble”

Featuring original work read by

Cathy Siegner * Narae Kim

Wayne Grady * Karen Multer

$100 pesos suggested donation

November 12, 2026, 4:00 PM doors open

4:30 – 5:30 PM Reading

by Rosaleen Bertolino

San Miguel Poetry & Prose Cafés is thrilled to debut our new venue, the popular Sala Quetzal at the Biblioteca. Our November 12, 2026 event will feature all sorts of delicious trouble: a writer who brings a gun to a poetry worksop, a dog trainer who decides to date an unemployed cop, a deluded government employee, and a wild born-again high-school friend.

Cathy Siegner is an independent journalist from Oregon who splits her time between San Miguel and Montana, where she launched a syndicated political column and published a free weekly newspaper. She writes and edits news and feature articles, including for Mexico News Daily, and, when she has time, also writes short stories and essays. She plans to compile a book of short stories and possibly write a novel if she ever manages to retire.

Narae Kim is a former dog agility trainer from California, a chef, and a cookbook author who has spent three decades rescuing animals and collecting unexpected adventures across Korea, California, and Mexico. She now lives in Mexico with her husband and their pets and is writing her first memoir, a humorous and heartfelt collection about reinvention, grief, found family, and the animals who shaped her life—and the realization that we rescue and are rescued throughout our lives.

Canadian author Wayne Grady has 15 books of nonfiction and 4 books of fiction, the most recent being The Cartel and Other Cover Stories, published this year by Freehand Books. He has won a National Outdoor Book Award, a Governor-General’s Award, four Science in Society Awards, and the Amazon.ca First Novel Award . He has taught creative nonfiction at the University of British Columbia, and his work has appeared in numerous literary journals, including Event, Queen’s Quarterly, the Tamarack Review, and Brick. He and his wife, novelist and memoirist Merilyn Simonds, divide their time between San Miguel de Allende and Kingston, Ontario.

Karen Multer is a Chicago-based writer, though she’s never been able to shake her Wisconsin roots growing up on the backwaters of the Mississippi River. She’s a former Dramatists Guild Fellow whose stories and essays have been published in CRAFT, Cutleaf, Open Minds Quarterly, Great Lakes Review, River and South Review, Writers Read, and the Fahmidan Journal, among others. She’s currently writing her first book, a linked short story collection entitled “The Special Ones.”

We are thrilled to be in our new location, Sala Quetzal, inside the wonderful Biblioteca Publica. Admission is free but we depend on donations to underwrite the costs of graphic design, promotional efforts, venue costs, and sound technicians. We are an all-volunteer organization. We are grateful to the San Miguel Literary Sala for their continued support.

Seating is limited.