F190. Monsters Under Your Bed: Writing from Folklore, Reinterpreting Legend
Friday, April 1, 2016
12:00 pm to 1:15 pm
Participants
Millicent Borges Accardi, the author of three poetry books: Injuring Eternity, Woman on a Shaky Bridge, and Only More So. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, CantoMundo, and the California Arts Council.
Jose Faus is a writer and visual artist. He is a founding member of the Latino Writers Collective and president of the board of the Writers Place, a resource and advocacy center for Kansas City area writers.
Maria Vasquez Boyd is a painter, artist, writer, and founding member of the Latino Writers Collective in Kansas City Missouri. Her work is published in Primera Pagina, Cuentos Del Centro, Everyday Other Things, Salit Magazine, America Now, and Here Kansas City Renga.
Amy Sayre Baptista’s stories have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Ninth Letter, Sou'wester, LUSO American Voices, and Chicago Noir. She is a CantoMundo fellow, a Pushcart Prize nominee, and a scholarship recipient to the Disquiet Literary Festival in Lisbon, Portugal. She has an MFA in fiction from the University of Illinois.
Miguel M. Morales