F241. An Unfinished Conversation: Gender and Creative Writing

Marquis Salon 9 & 10, Marriott Marquis, Meeting Level Two
Friday, February 10, 2017
3:00 pm to 4:15 pm

 

This panel brings together women writers across generations to explore how gender continues to shape women's experiences of creative writing today from learning in or teaching the workshop to publishing work to administering a creative writing program. In relation to race, class, and sexuality, how has the position of women writers changed over time and where are we today with regard to our access to publication and positions of power within our communities or academic institutions?


Participants

Moderator:

Jennifer Kwon Dobbs is associate professor of creative writing and program director of race and ethnic studies at St. Olaf College. Recipient of a White Pine Press Poetry Prize and a Minnesota State Arts Board grant, she is the author of Paper Pavilion and Notes from a Missing Person.

Lisa Lewis's books of poetry include The Unbeliever, Silent Treatment, Vivisect, Burned House with Swimming Pool, and The Body Double. She teaches in the creative writing program at Oklahoma State University, and she serves as poetry editor of the Cimarron Review.

Aimee Parkison is the author of Refrigerated Music for a Gleaming Woman, which won the FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize and is forthcoming in 2017. Parkison teaches in the creative writing program at Oklahoma State University and she has published three books of fiction.

Lisa Lee’s work has appeared in Ploughshares, North American Review, Sycamore Review, Gulf Coast, VIDA, and elsewhere. She has received a 2016 Pushcart Prize and awards from Jentel, Kundiman, the Korea Foundation, and other organizations. She was named a NYC Emerging Writers Fellow by the Center for Fiction.

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