We’re celebrating the two-year birthday of Women Write Resistance at the 2015 AWP Conference in Minneapolis!
What: Women Write Resistance 2nd Birthday Party
Who: Wendy Barker, Sarah A. Chavez, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Rebecca Foust, Alice Friman, Megan Gannon, Sara Henning, Therése Halscheid, Julie Kane, Jill Khoury, Christina Lovin, Tyler Mills, Danielle Sellers, Larissa Shmailo, Laura Madeline Wiseman, & Kimbery Wieser
When: Saturday, April 11, 2015 at 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Where: The Crooked Pint, 501 South Washington Ave
The birthday party’s theme is resistance and gender. There’s an open bar of delicious refreshments, a signing of the anthology, a book table for poets to buy, trade, sell, and/or autograph, and fabulous literary conversation. It will be great fun! Bring a friend to the event,check out the event page, follow us on twitter, and check out the book trailer. We look forward to seeing you at AWP!
Bios & Photos
Wendy Barker’s sixth collection of poetry, One Blackbird at a Time, has received the John Ciardi Prize and is forthcoming from BkMk Press in 2015. Her fourth chapbook of poems is forthcoming from Wings Press. Among her other books are a selection of poems with accompanying essays, Poems’ Progress (Absey & Co., 2002), and a selection of co-translations, Rabindranath Tagore: Final Poems (Braziller, 2001). Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including The Best American Poetry 2013. Recipient of NEA and Rockefeller fellowships, she is Poet-in-Residence and the Pearl LeWinn Endowed Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
Sarah A. Chavez, a mestiza born and raised in the California Central Valley, is the author of the chapbook, All Day, Talking (Dancing Girl Press, 2014), which was featured on Sundress Publications’ book spotlight, The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed. She holds a PhD in English with a focus in poetry and Ethnic Studies from the University of Nebraska – Lincoln. Her work can be found or is forthcoming in Stirring: A Literary Collective, Spoon River Poetry Review, Luna Luna Magazine, among others. Her manuscript, This, Like So Much, was an Honorable Mention for the 2013 Quercus Review Press Poetry Book Contest. A selection from her chapbook manuscript All Day, Talking won the Susan Atefat Peckham Fellowship in 2013. She is a proud member of the Macondo Writers Workshop. www.sarahachavez.com
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke’s books include authored (poetry) Dog Road Woman, Off-Season City Pipe, Blood Run, and Streaming, and a memoir, Rock Ghost, Willow, Deer and edited anthologies Sing: Poetry of the Indigenous Americas, Effigies and Effigies II. She most recently served as a Distinguished Writer at the University of Hawai’i, Mānoa and directs the Literary Sandhill Crane Retreat, performs with the band Rd Klā, and is currently at work on an environmental documentary film, Red Dust: Native resiliency in the dirty thirties. Hedge Coke came of age working fields, factories, and waters, and serves as an alternative field mentor. Awards for her work include an American Book Award, a Paterson Prize, a Sioux Falls Mayor’s Award, and fellowships or residencies with MacDowell, Black Earth Institute, Hawthornden Castle, Weymouth Center, Center for the Great Plains, and Lannan at Marfa.
Megan Gannon was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and graduated from Vassar College (BA), the University of Montana (MFA), and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (PhD). Formerly, she was a Peace Corps volunteer in The Gambia, West Africa, and she currently teaches at Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin.
Rebecca Foust’s fifth book, Paradise Drive, won the 2015 Press 53 Award for Poetry and will be released in April. Foust was the 2014 Dartmouth Poet in Residence and is the recipient of fellowships from the Frost Place and the MacDowell Colony.
Alice Friman’s sixth full-length collection is The View from Saturn from LSU Press. Her previous collection is Vinculum, LSU, for which she won the 2012 Georgia Author of the Year Award in Poetry. She is a recipient of a 2012 Pushcart Prize, is included in Best American Poetry 2009, and has been published in 14 countries. Friman lives in Milledgeville, Georgia, where she is Poet-in-Residence at Georgia College. Her podcast series, Ask Alice, is sponsored by the Georgia College MFA program and can be seen on YouTube.
Therése Halscheid’s new poetry collection is Frozen Latitudes (Press 53). Previous collections are Uncommon Geography, Without Home and Powertalk. She received a Greatest Hits chapbook award by Pudding House Publications. Her poetry and essays have appeared in such magazines as The Gettysburg Review, Tampa Review, Sou’wester, Natural Bridge. She is an itinerant writer by way of house-sitting. Her photography has appeared in juried shows and chronicles her nomadic lifestyle. She has taught in unusual locales such as an Eskimo village in northern Alaska, and the Ural Mountains of Russia. www.ThereseHalscheid.com
Sara Henning is the author of A Sweeter Water (Lavender Ink, 2013), as well as two chapbooks, Garden Effigies (Dancing Girl Press, 2015) and To Speak of Dahlias (Finishing Line Press, 2012). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in such journals as Connotation Press, Green Mountains Review, Crab Orchard Review, Greensboro Review, and RHINO, and anthologies such as Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence (2013). She holds an MFA from George Mason University, and she is currently a doctoral student in English and Creative Writing at the University of South Dakota, where she serves as Assistant Managing Editor for the South Dakota Review and on the Editorial Board at Sundress Publications.
Julie Kane’s poetry collections include Rhythm & Booze (2003), a National Poetry Series winner; Jazz Funeral (2009), a Donald Justice Prize winner; and Paper Bullets (2014), a new collection of humorous poems. The 2011-2013 Louisiana Poet Laureate, she teaches at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana.
Jill Khoury is interested in the intersection of poetry, visual art, representations of gender, and disability. She holds an MFA from The Ohio State University. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous journals, including Arsenic Lobster, Copper Nickel, Inter|rupture, and Portland Review. Pudding House Press released her chapbook, Borrowed Bodies, in 2009. Her first full-length collection, Suites for the Modern Dancer, is forthcoming from Sundress Publications in 2016. Find her at jillkhoury.com.
A native Mid-Westerner, Christina Lovin, now makes her home in Central Kentucky, where she is currently a full-time lecturer in the English & Theatre Department at Eastern Kentucky University. Lovin’s writing has appeared in over one hundred different literary journals and anthologies, as well as five volumes of poetry (Echo, A Stirring in the Dark, Flesh, Little Fires, and What We Burned for Warmth). She is the recipient of numerous poetry awards, writing residencies, fellowships, and grants, most notably the Al Smith Fellowship from Kentucky Arts Council, Kentucky Foundation for Women, and Elizabeth George Foundation Grant.
Danielle Sellers is from Key West, FL. She has an MA from The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and an MFA from the University of Mississippi where she held the John Grisham Poetry Fellowship. Her poems have appeared in River Styx, Subtropics, Smartish Pace, The Cimarron Review, Poet Lore, and elsewhere. Her first book, Bone Key Elegies, was published by Main Street Rag. She teaches English at Trinity Valley School in Fort Worth, Texas.
Larissa Shmailo is editor-in-chief of the anthology Twenty-first Century Russian Poetry (Big Bridge Press), poetry editor for MadHat Annual, and founder of The Feminist Poets in Low-Cut Blouses. She translated Victory over the Sun for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s celebrated reconstruction of the first Futurist opera; the libretto is now available from Červená Barva Press; Larissa’s poetry collections are #specialcharacters (Unlikely Books), In Paran (BlazeVOX [books], A Cure for Suicide (Červená Barva Press), and Fib Sequence (Argotist Ebooks). Her poetry CDs are The No-Net World and Exorcism (SongCrew); tracks are available from Spotify, iTunes, Muze, and Amazon. Her novel, Patient Women, is forthcoming from BlazeVOX [books]. She blogs at http://larissashmailo.blogspot.com/
Laura Madeline Wiseman is the author of twenty books and chapbooks and the editor of Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence (Hyacinth Girl Press). Her recent books are Drink (BlazeVOX Books), Wake (Aldrich Press), The Bottle Opener (Red Dashboard), and the collaborative book The Hunger of the Cheeky Sisters (Les Femmes Folles) with artist Lauren Rinaldi. Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Margie, Mid-American Review, and Feminist Studies.
Dr. Kimberly Wieser is an Assistant Professor of English and an affiliated faculty member with Native American Studies at the University of Oklahoma. She is Director of Native Writers Circle of the Americas and serves as Acting President of the Board of Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers. She is one of the co-authors of Reasoning Together: The Native Critics Collective (OU Press), named one of the most important books in her field in the first decade of the 21st century by NAISA and the winner of the NWCA First Books Award for Prose 2004 for Back to the Blanket: Reading, Writing, and Resistance for American Indian Literary Critics. She has written and published poems, stories, plays, articles, book reviews, and reference entries for anthologies and for publications from Studies in American Indian Literatures to American Indian Quarterly to News from Indian Country and Talking Stick Arts Newsletter. Her areas of interest are American Indian critical theories, literatures, rhetorics, and gender studies as well as creative writing and theatre. She is currently revising her poetry manuscript Spanglish is the Language of the 21st Century and shopping for a publisher.