S129. CANCELLED: The Borderlands of Latinx Poetics and Disability Studies
Status: Not Accepted
Saturday, March 7, 2020
9:00 am to 10:15 am
Participants
M. Soledad Caballero is Professor of English at Allegheny College.Her scholarship focuses on British Romanticism, WGSS, and interdisciplinarity. Her poetry has appeared in the Missouri Review, Memorious, the Crab Orchard Review, and other venues.
Jasminne Mendez is an award winning author, performance poet, and educator. She received her BA in English literature and her MEd in curriculum and instruction from the University of Houston. She is the author of two hybrid collections of poetry and essays.
Vanessa Angelica Villarreal is the author of Beast Meridian. She is the recipient of a 2019 Whiting Award, a 2018 Texas Institute of Letters John A. Robertson Award for Best First Book of Poetry, a Friends of Literature Prize from Poetry, and was a 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery Award finalist.
Carolina Ebeid received a 2015/2016 NEA Fellowship and awards from the Stadler Center, CantoMundo, and Bread Loaf Writers Conference. She holds an MFA from the Michener Center and is a doctoral student at the University of Denver. You Ask Me to Talk about the Interior is her first poetry collection.