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Mentorship as a Key to Diversity in Publishing
Thursday, March 24, 2022
3:20 pm to 4:35 pm
In publishing's ongoing work toward greater diversity and access, fellowships and mentorships can be the keys to doors many would otherwise see as closed to them. Focusing on A Public Space's fellowship program as one model for supporting emerging writers and editors, panelists will discuss their involvement with the program and how a fellowship can offer people from a variety of backgrounds and experiences the tools to help shape a more diverse and vibrant publishing community.
Participants
Taylor Michael is an emerging editor, essayist, and critic. She is an MFA student at Columbia University School of the Arts and was the inaugural A Public Space Editorial Fellow. She has work in the Columbia Journal, Hyperallergic, and Publisher's Weekly.
Gustavo Rueda has spent several years as a journalist writing articles about writers and film and theater directors—with the intention of absorbing knowledge from the spectator side and hoping to become the author of his own stories.
Jai Chakrabarti’s short fiction has appeared in numerous journals and has been anthologized in The O. Henry Prize Stories and The Best American Short Stories and awarded a Pushcart. He is the author of the debut novel A Play for the End of the World, published by Knopf.
Deborah Taffa is the director of the MFA in creative writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In 2021, her memoir manuscript won awards from PEN America, MacDowell, Tin House, and Kranzberg Arts. Her writing can be found at Boston Review, A Public Space, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. She is a citizen of the Quechan Nation.
Miguel Coronado is the 2021 Editorial Fellow at A Public Space. He has interned in academic publishing at W.W. Norton and has a BA in English and creative writing from New York University.
