S123. CANCELLED: Writing the Mother Wound, A Reading
Status: Not Accepted
Saturday, March 7, 2020
9:00 am to 10:15 am
Participants
Vanessa Martir has been published in Longreads, The Rumpus, The Washington Post, and Roxane Gay’s anthology Not That Bad, among others. She is the founder of the Writing Our Lives Workshop and the Writing the Mother Wound class. Vanessa is working on her memoir, A Dim Capacity for Wings.
Jaquira Díaz is the author of the forthcoming Ordinary Girls and the recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and the Kenyon Review. Her work appears in The Best American Essays, Longreads, and the New York Times Style Magazine.
Leslie Contreras Schwartz is a multi-genre writer from Houston. She is the author of the collections of poems Nightbloom & Cenote and Fuego and is the current Houston poet laureate.
H’Rina DeTroy is a hapa Montagnard American memoirist, essayist and creative writing instructor. She's the recipient of Aspen Word's 2019 Emerging Writer Fellowship. Her essay "The Vengeance of Elephants" was chosen for the 2017 Curt Johnson Prose Award in Creative Nonfiction, selected by Roxane Gay.
Nana-Ama Danquah
