F235.
Disabled & D/deaf Writers Caucus
Friday, February 9, 2024
3:20 pm to 4:35 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 fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, American Literary Review, Electric Literature, and elsewhere.
Emily Rose Cole is the author of the full-length poetry collection Thunderhead and the chapbook Love & a Loaded Gun, a 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.
Jess Silfa is an Afro-Latinx, disabled, and queer writer and poet. They earned a BA from Columbia University, an MFA in Creative Writing from Vanderbilt, and are a PhD student at the University of Cincinnati. They are currently working on a novel and a poetry chapbook.
