S171. CANCELLED: All My Hexes Live in Texas: Writing the Weird, Weird West
Status: Not Accepted
Saturday, March 7, 2020
10:35 am to 11:50 am
The Sand Creek Massacre, Yucca Mountain, Area 51—the West’s desolate “emptiness” belies depths of the dangerous and the bizarre. Writing its mysteries, consequently, runs deeply: from Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine to Joy Williams’s The Quick and the Dead. In this panel, five established and emerging prose writers read within this regional tradition, ranging in subject from mesa megafauna to ghosts of annihilation. These writers present an updated essence of the phantasmagorical American West.
Participants
Moderator:
Alexander Lumans was awarded a 2018 NEA fellowship in prose. He was the Spring 2014 Philip Roth Resident at Bucknell, and he was a 2015 Fellow on The Arctic Circle Residency. He has attended MacDowell, Yaddo, and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. He teaches at the University of Colorado Denver.
Fernando A. Flores is the author of the collection Death to the Bullshit Artists of South Texas and the novel Tears of the Trufflepig.
Ramona Ausubel is the author of Awayland, Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty, A Guide to Being Born, and the PEN/USA Award-winning novel No One Is Here Except All of Us. She teaches in the low-residency MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts and Colorado State University.
Kimberly King Parsons's debut story collection, Black Light, was longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award and the 2019 Story Prize, and is a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. Her fiction has appeared in The Paris Review; she is currently working on a novel about Texas, motherhood, and LSD.
Marisa Matarazzo
