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Disabled & D/deaf Writers Caucus
Thursday, March 9, 2023
5:00 pm to 6:15 pm
The Disabled & D/deaf Writers Caucus allows for those who are disabled or living with chronic illness, and their allies, to network and discuss common challenges related to identity, writing, and teaching while professionally leading a literary life. By meeting annually at the AWP conference, we aim to archive our interests, challenges, and concerns in order to increase our visibility and emphasize our importance both to this organization and to the communities where we live, teach, and work.
Participants
Cade Leebron writes nonfiction and poetry. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, American Literary Review, Electric Literature, and elsewhere.
Jess Silfa is an Afro-Latinx, disabled, and queer writer, and poet. They graduated from Columbia University and are currently in the MFA program at Vanderbilt. They are currently working on their first novel about a tight-knit immigrant community as well as a chapbook of poems about the body.
Molly McCully Brown is the author of the essay collection Places I've Taken My Body and the poetry collection The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded. With Susannah Nevison, she coauthored the poetry collection In the Field Between Us. She teaches at Old Dominion University.
Emily Rose Cole is the author of the full-length poetry collection Thunderhead and the chapbook Love & A Loaded Gun, collection of persona poems in women's voices. She holds an MFA in poetry from Southern Illinois University Carbondale and is a PhD candidate at the University of Cincinnati.
