F112.
Queer Architectures: New Models for Memoir
Friday, February 9, 2024
9:00 am to 10:15 am
Queer stories break from traditional norms, so why wouldn’t their narrative shapes do the same? As our canon of queer memoir expands, memoir as a genre continues to open itself to experimental architectures that amplify narrative possibilities for all nonfiction writers. Three queer memoirists draw from their own work as well as the writers they love to explore the exhilarating possibilities for queer forms and how to find the containers that enable them to tell their truest stories.
Participants
Zoë Sprankle is an emerging queer writer based in Brooklyn, New York. She recently received her MFA from The Newport MFA at Salve Regina University. Her work has been featured in Roxane Gay’s The Audacity, Quarter After Eight, and Go Magazine.
Alden Jones is the author of the books The Wanting Was a Wilderness, Unaccompanied Minors, and The Blind Masseuse. Her fiction and essays appear in The Rumpus, The Cut, AGNI, and The Best American Travel Writing. She is writer-in-residence at Emerson College and codirects the Cuba Writers Program.
Putsata Reang is an award-winning author and journalist of the debut memoir, Ma and Me. She is an alum of writers residencies at Hedgebrook, Kimmel Harding Nelson and Mineral School, and of the Jack Straw Writers Program. Her writing has appeared in a variety of national and international publications.
Kirsten Imani Kasai
