F176.
Should I Just Give Up?
Friday, February 9, 2024
12:10 pm to 1:25 pm
These Chicana/x feminist poets, memoirists, artists, administrators, and professors have invested a collective ninety years on projects that lingered long past their anticipated finish dates. Because we represent communities whose stories might not otherwise be heard, the writing process can be especially daunting. We’ll talk about how we got it done, the communities that supported us, how we handled rejection, how we navigated this long relationship, or how we finally let go and moved on.
Participants
Michelle Otero is the author of Vessels: A Memoir of Borders, Bosque: Poems, and Malinche's Daughter. Her work has appeared in The Best of Brevity anthology, NPR's Code Switch, and New Mexico Magazine. She is the former Poet Laureate of Albuquerque and a member of the Macondo Writers Workshop.
Anel I. Flores, lesbiana, chicana, artist, is the author of Empanada, a Lesbiana Story en Probaditas. She is a member of Macondo Writer’s Workshop and NALAC. Currently she is completing her forthcoming manuscripts CORTINAS DE LLUVIA and her graphic memoir PINDADA DE ROJO.
Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo is the author of Posada: Offerings of Witness and Refuge (Sundress Publications) and is a former Steinbeck Fellow and Poets & Writers California Writers Exchange winner. She is the creator of the quarterly reading series Hitched and a cofounder of Women Who Submit.
T. Jackie Cuevas cofounded Evelyn Street Press, belongs to the Macondo Writers Workshop, and teaches at the University of Texas. Cuevas’s writing has appeared in Sinister Wisdom, Label Me Latina/o, Affirming Flame, and Ixua Review.
Chicana feminist and former Rodeo Queen, Tisha Marie Reichle-Aguilera is a playwright, fiction writer, and the author of Breaking Pattern (Inlandia Books 2023). She has an MFA from Antioch and a PhD from USC. She is a Macondista and works for literary equity through Women Who Submit.
