S202. Lambda Literary Fellows on Transnational and Intersectional Queer Fiction
Saturday, March 7, 2020
12:10 pm to 1:25 pm
Participants
Serkan Gorkemli’s fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, Foglifter, and Chelsea Station. His book Grassroots Literacies: Lesbian and Gay Activism and the Internet in Turkey won the 2015 CCCC Lavender Rhetorics Award. He is a 2018 Lambda Literary fellow and an associate professor of English at UConn.
Natasha Dennerstein
Javier Fuentes is a Spanish American writer. He holds an MFA in fiction from Columbia University where he was a teaching fellow in the undergraduate writing program. A 2018 Lambda Literary Fellow, Javier is working on a novel against the cliches of being queer, undocumented, and marginalized.
Melissa Nigro is a queer writer working on a collection of short stories set in Eden, a dying Californian gold rush town. They are a 2018 Lambda Literary Fellow and their fiction has appeared in The Knicknackery and Emerge: The 2018 Lambda Fellows Anthology.