S217. CANCELLED: On the Road Again: Authors Planning and Surviving a Book Tour
Status: Not Accepted
Saturday, March 7, 2020
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm
Participants
Ivelisse Rodriguez is the author of Love War Stories, a 2019 PEN/Faulkner finalist and a 2018 Foreword Reviews INDIES finalist. She curates an interview series focused on contemporary Puerto Rican writers. She has taught creative writing at various universities.
Kali Fajardo-Anstine's story collection, Sabrina & Corina, and novel, Woman of Light, chronicle the lives of Chicanas in the Southwest. Kali has received fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell Colony, and Hedgebrook. She has an MFA from the University of Wyoming.
Adam Giannelli is the author of Tremulous Hinge (winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize) and the translator of Diadem (a selection of prose poems by Marosa di Giorgio). His writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Washington Post Magazine, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere.
Cinelle Barnes is the Manila-born author of Monsoon Mansion and Malaya: Essays on Freedom. Her work has received support from Kundiman, VONA, the John and Susan Bennett Memorial Arts Fund, and the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, and has appeared in Catapult, Literary Hub, and Buzzfeed Reader.
Gabino Iglesias is a writer, journalist, professor, and book reviewer. He’s the author of Coyote Songs and Zero Saints. His work has been translated into three languages, optioned for film, and nominated to the Wonderland Book Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the Locus Award.