S223. Leaving the Movie Theater: Cinema and Literature
Status: Not Accepted
Saturday, March 7, 2020
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm
Participants
Allison Conner's writing has appeared in Bitch, Jacket2, and The Rumpus and in the anthologies Forward: 21st Century Flash Fiction and Rockhaven: A History of Interiors. She is the reviews editor at Full Stop and manages the Speakers Bureau at Jack Jones Literary Arts.
Tisa Bryant is the author of Unexplained Presence and Residual (forthcoming), cocreator of the Black Book visual mixtape series, and co-founder of the Encyclopedia Project. Focused on experimentation and Black feminist thought, she teaches at the California Institute of the Arts.
Diana Marie Delgado's first poetry collection, Tracing the Horse, is forthcoming. She is the author of Late Night Talks with Men I Think I Trust. She is a 2017 NEA Fellow in Poetry.
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.
Mimi Wong is the editor in chief of The Offing. Her writing on art and culture has been published in ArtAsiaPacific, Catapult, Electric Literature, Hyperallergic, Literary Hub, and Refinery29. She's worked as a producer and editor in film and television for the past decade.