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Gamers, Gynos, & Robobees: Writers Researching the Ongoing Future

125, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 100 Level
Saturday, March 26, 2022
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm

 

What are best practices for deep creative research, and how does who researches and writes about science and tech shape our future? Four creative writers exploring underrepresented perspectives in STEM share research practices and experiences, including shadowing med students and visiting North Korea, exploring virtual reality and infiltrating Reddit to access the language and hierarchy of game design companies, visiting deforested areas in Cambodia, and investigating robobees and robot priests.



Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: AWP_2022_Outline.pdf

Participants

Moderator:

Rebecca Morgan Frank's fourth collection of poems is Oh You Robot Saints!, and her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, APR, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. She teaches in the MFA program at Northwestern University, edits Memorious, and serves on the board of the National Book Critics Circle.

A.E. Osworth is a transgender novelist. Their first book, We Are Watching Eliza Bright is based on Gamergate and is narrated collectively and unreliably by Reddit. They teach digital storytelling at The New School and fiction at Catapult.

Marie Myung-Ok Lee is the author of forthcoming novels The Evening Hero, Finding My Voice (YA). Fiction has appeared in the Kenyon Review, FiveChapters, TriQuarterly, Witness, Joyland, and Guernica. Nonfiction has appeared in the Atlantic, Paris Review, and the New York Times. She teaches fiction at Columbia.

Alden Jones is the author of the books The Wanting Was a Wilderness, Unaccompanied Minors, and The Blind Masseuse. Her fiction and essays have appeared in BOMB, the Rumpus, the Cut, AGNI, and Best American Travel Writing. She teaches at Emerson College and the Newport MFA program.

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