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We Are Your Saviors: Returning to the POC vs. MFA Conversation
Saturday, March 26, 2022
12:10 pm to 1:25 pm
Since 2016, when these panelists convened to talk about their experience as POC writers who led creative-writing workshops, profound changes in conversations on race and writing have taken place. Let's consider the ways that faculty of color center and negotiate intersectional identities in these spaces. Their dual perspective as marginalized leaders position them to reimagine the writing workshop after centering equity. What has been disrupted? What has stayed the same?
Participants
Juan Martinez is an associate professor at Northwestern University. Best Worst American, his story collection, was released in 2017, and his work has appeared in Huizache, Glimmer Train, McSweeney's, Ecotone, Selected Shorts, and elsewhere.
DeMisty D. Bellinger teaches creative writing, African American lit, and women's studies at Fitchburg State University. She is the author of Rubbing Elbows and Peculiar Heritage. She also serves as a reader and editor for various publications. DeMisty publishes in all genres.
Jimin Han is the author of A Small Revolution and an as-yet-untitled forthcoming novel. She teaches or has taught at the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College and Pace University.
Dionne Irving Bremyer is originally from Toronto, Ontario. She is the author of the novel Quint from 7.13 Books, and her short story collection Islands is forthcoming from Catapult Books in 2022. Her work has appeared in Story, Boulevard, Lit Hub, Missouri Review, and New Delta Review.
Julie Iromuanya is the author of Mr. and Mrs. Doctor, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, the Etisalat Prize for Literature, and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize for Debut Fiction. She teaches at the University of Chicago.
