S274. CANCELLED: You've Got It Wrong: Writing against Misperceptions
Status: Not Accepted
Saturday, March 7, 2020
3:20 pm to 4:35 pm
Participants
Fiona McCrae has been the director and publisher of Graywolf Press since 1994.
Marie Mutsuki Mockett's memoir, American Harvest: God, Country and Farming in the Heartland, follows her travels through seven agricultural states and tries to reconcile competing ideas of our national story. It was a finalist for the 2017 Lukas Prize.
Carmen Maria Machado is the author of National Book Award finalist story collection Her Body and Other Parties and the memoir In the Dream House. She is a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow, and her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta, Tin House, Conjunctions, and elsewhere.
Ander Monson is the author of eight books, most recently I Will Take the Answer and The Gnome Stories. He teaches at the University of Arizona and edits the magazine DIAGRAM, the website Essay Daily, March Xness, and the New Michigan Press.
Paul Lisicky is the author of six books including Later, The Narrow Door, and Unbuilt Projects. A Guggenheim Fellow, he is an associate professor in the MFA program at Rutgers University-Camden and serves on the writing committee of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.