F225.
Transformation: Creating Change Through Collaboration
Friday, February 9, 2024
3:20 pm to 4:35 pm
Inspired by Helena Maria Viramontes’s AWP 2020 keynote address, Women Who Submit’s third anthology, TRANSFORMATION, centers work that speaks to the ways writers and other artists can promote change in the world. By focusing on generosity and collaboration, shared leadership and mentorship, and inclusive partnerships, panelists discuss how Women Who Submit makes this change a reality not just in the writing they publish but in the ways they edit, publish, and promote their writers.
Participants
Noriko Nakada is the author of the Through Eyes Like Mine memoir series. Excerpts, essays, and poetry have been published in Hippocampus, Catapult, Linden Ave, and elsewhere. She serves on the leadership team and as blog manager for Women Who Submit.
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.
Nikia Chaney is a multigenre author of nonfiction, science fiction, and poetry. Her memoir Ladybug is available from Inlandia Institute (2022). Her forthcoming poetry book To Stir & is forthcoming from Word Works press.
Sarah Rafael García is an award-winning author, multimedia artist, and founder of the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC). She's the author of SanTana's Fairy Tales, recently an ethnic studies text requirement, and coeditor of speculative fiction for Dreamers, among other publications.
Ryane Nicole Granados is a writer, professor, and former AWP Writer to Writer mentee. Recently named the Individual Arts Fellow by the California Arts Council, her work has been published in various outlets, nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and showcased in KPCC’s live series Unheard LA.
