R300. LGBTQ Writers Caucus

Room 102B, Washington Convention Center, Level One
Thursday, February 9, 2017
6:00 pm to 7:15 pm

 

The LGBTQ Caucus provides a space for writers who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer to network and discuss common issues and challenges, such as representation and visibility on and off the literary page; and incorporating one’s personal identity into their professional and academic lives. The Caucus also strives to discuss, develop, and increase queer representation for future AWP conferences, and to serve as a supportive community and resource for its members.


Participants

Moderator:

Tiffany Ferentini is the current marketing manager for Monkey Business International and the vice president of the LGBTQ Caucus. Their work has appeared in the Gambler; Off the Rocks, the LGBTQ Anthology of Newtown Writers Press; and Songs of My Selfie: An Anthology of Millennial Writing.

Miguel M. Morales grew up as a migrant farmworker. He is president of the LGBTQ Caucus and the Latino Writers Collective. He is a Lambda Literary Fellow and a Macondo Writers Workshop and VONA/Voices alum. His work appears in Primera PáginaCuentos del Centro, and Borderlands Texas Poetry Review.

Todd Summar writes essays and fiction, and serves as an editor for publishers and individuals. His work has appeared in PANK, Lit Hub, Joyland, and Punctuate, among others. He is the founding editor of Goreyesque and he edits short stories for the Masters Review.

Samantha Tetangco has an MFA in fiction. Her stories, essays, and poetry have been published in a number of literary magazines, including the Sun, Gargoyle, Phoebe, Gertrude, and others. She currently teaches writing at the University of California Merced.

Sean Patrick Mulroy is an internationally recognized poet and performer who has been featured on Button Poetry and Russell Simmons’s Def Poetry Jam, a 2013 Lambda Literary Fellow, and an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

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