S190.
All the Whiles: Writing While Parenting While Black
Saturday, March 26, 2022
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm
If writing is an act of solitude, requiring either “money and a room of [one’s] own” or the fluidity of movement and travel that Paule Marshall describes in Triangular Road, then how do writers create amid an act that often requests a subsuming of time, body, and often identity, especially as historically marginalized people, especially now? Panelists examine means of creation that navigate the minefields of parenting from the space of Other.
Participants
Gail Upchurch writes young adult/adult fiction and holds a PhD in creative writing from Binghamton University. A 2021 Tin House YA Scholar, she is an English professor at PG Community College. She is represented by Lucy Irvine of Peters Fraser and Dunlop Literary Agency and is currently on submission.
Shinelle L. Espaillat teaches at Dutchess Community College in New York. Her work has appeared in Tahoma Literary Review, Two Hawks Quarterly, Minerva Rising, the Westchester Review, Ghost Parachute, Cleaver Magazine, and Midway Journal. She is represented by Annie Bomke of Annie Bomke Literary Agency.
Cole Lavalais's work can be found in the Chicago Tribune, Obsidian, Apogee Journal, WarpLand, Tidal Basin Review, Aquarius Press, and others. She has taught writing for over fourteen years and is an assistant professor of creative writing and English at Chicago State University.
Claudine Thomas is a recent graduate from Arcadia University's MFA creative writing program. She works at Moore College of Art and Design as an arts administrator, writing and assessing arts curriculum. She writes young adult and middle grade fiction.
