Thinking Its Presence: Race and Creative Writing

Theatre, writing, performance, definitions of space; venn diagrams and the porous quality of the boundaries that separate.

Tisa Bryant makes work that often traverses the boundaries of genre, culture and history, with an enduring fascination with fusing critical and creative writing through the other arts into distinctive registers and new forms. She is the author of Unexplained Presence, a collection... Read More →

Heather Cahoon, PhD, received her MFA in Poetry from the University of Montana where she was the Richard Hugo Scholar.  She has been awarded a Merriam Frontier Prize, a Potlatch Native Arts grant and a Montana Arts Council Artist Innovation Award.  Her writing has appeared in Hanging... Read More →

Elizabeth Eslami is the author of the forthcoming story collection, Hibernate, for which she was awarded the 2013 Ohio State University Prize in Short Fiction, and the novel Bone Worship (Pegasus, 2010). Her essays, short stories, and travel writing have been published most recently... Read More →

Poet Monty Campbell is a member of the Cayuga Tribe of the Six Nations. He grew up in and around Gowanda, NY, the Cattaraugus Reservation and Rochester, NY's inner city.He is the author of Train through the Video Game (Shabda Press) and A Large Dent in the Moon (Foothills). He has... Read More →

Born in Japan and raised in the US, Michelle Naka Pierce is the author of four books and five chapbooks, including Continuous Frieze Bordering Red (Fordham, 2012), awarded the Poets Out Loud Editor's Prize, and She, A Blueprint (BlazeVOX, 2011), with art by Sue Hammond West. She... Read More →