F235.
Poverty, Violence, Redemption
Friday, March 25, 2022
3:20 pm to 4:35 pm
These readings showcase the lives of poor and working-class protagonists and were conceived by writers from distinct, poor, and working-class backgrounds eerily similar to those of their respective characters. Exploring various unique and underprivileged rural settings, authors tackle moral dilemmas through richly developed yet poorly compensated characters, exposing them in all of their flaw, vice, merit, and humanity.
Participants
Gonzalo Baeza is the author of the short story collection La ciudad de los hoteles vacios (The City of Vacant Hotels). His fiction has been published in the Texas Review, Boulevard, and Estados Hispanos de América, among others.
Joseph D. Haske is a writer and critic whose debut novel, North Dixie Highway, was released in October 2013. His fiction appears in journals such as Boulevard, Fiction International, the Texas Review, the Four-Way Review, Pleiades, and in the Chicago Tribune's literary supplement, Printers Row Journal.
Laura Leigh Morris's first book, Jaws of Life, was released by West Virginia University Press in March 2018. She teaches creative writing at Furman University and is the codirector of the Furman Prison Education Partnership.
Daniel M. Mendoza is the editor of Stray Dogs: Interviews with Working-Class Writers. His fiction and essays have appeared in journals across the country. He is managing editor of Dissonance.
