S148. True Story: Revolutionary Creative Nonfiction
Saturday, March 30, 2019
10:30 am to 11:45 am
Participants
Anjoli Roy earned her PhD in English and creative writing in 2017. She has published recently with Waxwing, the Asian American Literary Review, River Teeth, and Hippocampus. She is a 2018 Voices of Our Nation Workshop fellow and runs a weekly literature and music radio show on KTUH FM Honolulu.
Lizz Huerta is a poet, fiction writer, essayist from the Borderlands of So. California. Her work is informed/shaped/ by the borders of land, spirituality, ancestry and labor. She is outside of academia, working as a painting contractor, collecting stories and voices from construction sites.
Nicky Loomis is a writer living in Los Angeles. Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Catapult, Los Angeles Times and others. She spent 2012 in Budapest, Hungary as a Fulbright scholar in creative writing. She currently teaches journalism and creative writing at Crossroads.
Lara Stapleton wrote The Lowest Blue Flame Before Nothing, a PEN Open Book Committee selection and an Independent Booksellers' selection. A writer of stories, poems, essays, and teleplays, she is partnered with producer Rachel Watanabe-Batton on the 1850 project, a television show.
Krys Lee