F230.
Wearing Two Hats: Writers Teaching High School
Friday, March 25, 2022
3:20 pm to 4:35 pm
Young people need meaningful relationships with practicing writers. Writers (living, breathing, coffee-drinking writers) show students that there are other ways to organize their lives. And working writers need regular contact with young people to stay connected to the future. This panel will animate these complementary ideas through the stories of four writer-educators, who will bring to the discussion several decades of secondary school experience as well as robust, active writing lives.
Participants
Geoffrey Hilsabeck is the author of Riddles, Etc. and American Vaudeville. His poems and essays have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Believer, and elsewhere. He teaches English at Sewickley Academy.
Khaliah Williams is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and received her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her fiction has appeared in the Hawaii Women's Journal, Frontier Psychiatrist, and Day One. You can read her nonfiction at Buzzfeed, American Short Fiction, Salon, and Bookcountry.
Amy M. Alvarez coedited Essential Voices: A COVID-19 Anthology (WVU Press). Her poetry appears in numerous literary journals as well as anthologies and textbooks. A CantoMundo, Macondo, VONA, Furious Flower Poetry Center, and VCCA fellow, she teaches at West Virginia University.
Alan Chazaro is the author of This Is Not a Frank Ocean Cover Album and Piñata Theory. He is a graduate of June Jordan’s Poetry for the People program at UC Berkeley and a former Lawrence Ferlinghetti Fellow at the University of San Francisco.
