F126.
Navigating Layered Identities in Creative Nonfiction
Friday, March 25, 2022
9:00 am to 10:15 am
In writing nonfiction, we curate versions of ourselves and other characters, making choices as to which aspects of personhood to include on the page. In this panel, writers highlight various aspects of their identities from essay to essay based on subject, audience, style, etc., and discuss our responsibilities to readers and to ourselves.
Participants
Liesel Hamilton is a PhD candidate at Florida State University. She has received fellowships from George Mason University and the Alan Cheuse International Writers Center, is the coauthor of the book Wild South Carolina, and is currently working on a project about war and memory.
Silas Hansen teaches creative writing at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, and is the nonfiction editor for Waxwing. His essays have appeared in Slate, Colorado Review, the Normal School, Hayden's Ferry Review, Redivider, Puerto del Sol, and elsewhere.
Alysia Sawchyn is a senior features editor at The Rumpus. Her essay collection, A Fish Growing Lungs, was a finalist for the 2020 Believer Awards.
Rajpreet Heir is an assistant professor of creative nonfiction at Ithaca College. She has published nonfiction in both commercial and literary venues including the Atlantic, the Washington Post, the New York Times, Teen Vogue, Brevity, and others. She writes about being Indian in Indiana.
Robbie Maakestad is a senior features editor for the Rumpus and an assistant professor of writing at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego.
