S122. CANCELLED: Dismantling the White Imagination: On Intimacy in Creative Nonfiction
Status: Not Accepted
Saturday, March 7, 2020
9:00 am to 10:15 am
Participants
Emily Arnason Casey is the author of Made Holy: Essays. Her writing has appeared in the Normal School, The Rumpus, Hotel Amerika, Briar Cliff Review, Mid-American Review, and elsewhere. She teaches writing at the Community College of Vermont. www.emilyarnasoncasey.com
Rita Banerjee is the director of the MFA in Writing & Publishing program at Vermont College of Fine Arts and author of Echo in Four Beats, CREDO: An Anthology of Manifestos and Sourcebook for Creative Writing, and A Night with Kali. Her work appears in Poets & Writers, The Rumpus, VIDA, and LARB.
Aisha Sabatini Sloan is the author of The Fluency of Light: Coming of Age in a Theater of Black and White and Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit, which won the CLMP Firecracker Award for Nonfiction. She is currently the Helen Zell Visiting Professor of Creative Nonfiction at the University of Michigan.
Jericho Parms is the author of Lost Wax. Her essays have appeared in Fourth Genre, The Normal School, Hotel Amerika, Brevity, and elsewhere. She received her MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and teaches at Champlain College.
David Shields is the internationally bestselling author of more than 20 books, including Reality Hunger (30 "best books of 2010" mentions),The Thing about Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead (New York Times bestseller), The Trouble with Men, and Nobody Hates Turmp More Than Trump. He is an NBCC finalist and his books appear in twenty-four languages.