Description | This talk is open to the public and will be via Zoom. Please pre-register at this link if you would like to attend. A link will be distributed on the day of the event. Ruth Joffre is the author of the story collection Night Beast, which was longlisted for The Story Prize. Her fiction and poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in Kenyon Review, Pleiades, Gulf Coast, Lightspeed, Nightmare, Hayden's Ferry Review, Wigleaf, the anthologies Best Microfiction 2021 & 2022, and elsewhere. Her interview series with the authors, editors, and curators of craft books and resources is freely available on Catapult’s Don’t Write Alone and the Kenyon Review blog. She earned her BA from Cornell University and her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She served as the 2020-2022 Hugo House Prose Writer-in-Residence and co-organized the Fight for Our Lives performance series with D.A. Navoti. Tricia Goetschius Fuentes is a civil servant by day and writer by night. She graduated with her MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics from the University of Washington Bothell in June of 2022. When not working for the man or writing for herself, you will often find her lazing in front of the TV with her partner and her kids. You can visit her online at triciafuentes.com Atlanta Duncan is an MFA candidate in the UW Bothell Creative Writing & Poetics program and Events Coordinator for the UWB Labor Colloquium. They were born in Providence, Rhode Island and grew up by the ocean. An interdisciplinary artist, writer, and half of the experimental punk band Johnny Ointment, they cultivate medicinal herbs as Avant Gardenz. Their work explores death, desire, folklore and the occult through a queer feminist lens. |
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