F176.
Is My Writing Queer Enough?
Friday, March 25, 2022
12:10 pm to 1:25 pm
Writers from across genres, gender and sexual identities, and educational and cultural backgrounds come together to share how they manage their talents, life, and career for success within the LGBTQ community. In an attempt to both celebrate and give voice to queer experiences, they ask, "Is my writing queer enough?"
Participants
Nicky Beer is a bi/queer writer and the author of Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes, The Octopus Game, and The Diminishing House. She is an associate professor at the University of Colorado-Denver, where she coedits the journal Copper Nickel.
Faylita Hicks (she/they) is the author of HoodWitch, a finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Poetry. They are a 2021 Shearing Fellow with Black Mountain Institute and currently serve as the 2021 poet in residence for the Civil Rights Corps.
David Woo is the author of two books of poetry: Divine Fire and The Eclipses. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, New Republic, Threepenny Review, and in the Library of America’s American Religious Poems. He is a reviewer at the Poetry Foundation.
Vanessa Angélica Villarreal is the author of the poetry collection Beast Meridian and a recipient of a 2019 Whiting Award. She is a 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow and lives with her son in Los Angeles, where she is a doctoral candidate at the University of Southern California.
Celeste Chan works across fiction, creative nonfiction, oral histories, and documentary filmmaking. A Hedgebrook, Lambda, and VONA fellow, she facilitates creative writing workshops for LGBTQ youth. She's published in AWAY, cream city review, the Rumpus, and beyond.
