F213. Lead with Love: Queer Voices in Literature with Red Hen Press
Friday, February 9, 2024
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm
This panel of BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ writers honors intersectional and intergenerational communities, the safe spaces we hold for each other, the creation, expression, and celebration of their stories. We move together from darkness to light, from banning to expression—by opening doors and inviting diverse communities to the page and to the microphone to lead, speak, read, share, and celebrate with love.
This event will take place in person in the Kansas City Convention Center and will be livestreamed for virtual audiences. All livestreamed events include open captions and ASL interpretation.
Participants
Francisco Aragón is the son of Nicaraguan immigrants. He is the author of Puerta del Sol, Glow of Our Sweat, and After Rubén, as well as editor of The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry. His poems have appeared in twenty anthologies. In 2017, he was a finalist for Split This Rock’s Freedom Plow Award for Poetry & Activism. A native of San Francisco, California, he directs Letras Latinas, the literary initiative at the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies. Aragón divides his time between Mililani, HI and South Bend, IN.
H Warren (they/them) is a poet and musician from Fairbanks, Alaska. They received their MFA in creative writing poetry from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and are currently a MSW candidate with the University of New England online. H is a 2019 Rasmuson Individual Artist Award recipient.
Andrew Lam is the author of the essay collections Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora, winner of the 2006 PEN Open Book Award, and East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres. Birds of Paradise Lost is his first story collection. He lives in San Francisco.
Elizabeth Bradfield is a writer and naturalist/guide who lives on Cape Cod, works on ships around the globe, and teaches creative writing at Brandeis University. Toward Antarctica is her fourth collection.
Jenny Factor’s first book, Unraveling at the Name (Copper Canyon Press), was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Jenny serves as lecturer in poetry at Caltech. She loves dogs.
