F118.
Authentic Friendships Between Women in Literature & Life
Friday, March 25, 2022
9:00 am to 10:15 am
No one breaks your heart like a woman, especially when a woman breaks another woman’s heart. Female friendships make or break us in ways no other relationship can. How do we draw from these experiences that reverberate through lifetimes? How do they impact our work? Four critically acclaimed authors dynamically engage with one another, drawing from their multigenre works as well as their own experiences to discuss the role of authentically crafting these friendships in literature and in life.
Participants
Krystal Sital is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Secrets We Kept. A PEN Award finalist, her essays have been anthologized in A Map Is Only One Story and Fury: Women’s Lived Experiences of the Trump Era. Her work can also be found in Elle, the New York Times, and Catapult.
Amy Jo Burns is the author of Cinderland, a memoir, and Shiner, a novel that was a Barnes and Noble Discover Pick and an NPR Best Book of the Year. Her writing has appeared in Elle, Good Housekeeping, the Paris Review Daily, Electric Literature, Literary Hub, and the anthology Not That Bad.
Dantiel W. Moniz is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction. Her debut collection, Milk Blood Heat, is an Indie Next Pick, and her work has appeared in magazines such as the Paris Review. She is an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Alisson Wood’s award-winning writing has been published in the New York Times, the Paris Review, The Rumpus, Vogue, and Vanity Fair. She is the founder and editor in chief of Pigeon Pages, a literary journal and reading series. Alisson is the author of Being Lolita.
Steph Auteri has written for the Atlantic, the Guardian, Pacific Standard, VICE, and other publications. Her more literary work has appeared in Poets & Writers, Creative Nonfiction, Under the Gum Tree, and elsewhere. Author of A Dirty Word, she is the founder of Guerrilla Sex Ed.
