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Claudia Sosa Lazo

Claudia Sosa Lazo

Claudia Sosa Lazo grew up in Caracas, Venezuela, and has since lived in New York, Chiang Mai, Yangon, and New Haven. She believes in the power of narrative and empathy, and brings these elements into her work on agriculture and land rights—as well as into her writing, which has appeared in The Guardian and the Columbia Review, among other places. She dreams of growing old in the house with the vines on Calle el Poniente. icon

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Street of the Setting Sun: Caracas, Venezuela

By Claudia Sosa Lazo

Calle el Poniente is named for the setting sun, but if you look out the window of the middle bedroom of the house with the vines, you can instead see the sun rising ...

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