Speakers
Kelly Dulaney began in the cinders of Arizona; now she lives alongside the hogback hills of Colorado. Her writing appears in Western Humanities Review, Cherry Tree, Black Warrior Review, Fugue, Waxwing, Fairy Tale Review, The Best American Experimental Writing Anthology (BAX) 2015...
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UC Santa Cruz
Thaïs Miller is the author of the novel, Our Machinery (2008), and the collection, The Subconscious Mutiny and Other Stories (2009). At UC Berkeley Extension and the Gotham Writers Workshop, she taught literature and creative writing. In San Francisco, she volunteers as an editorial...
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crystal am nelson is an artist, scholar, and independent curator. Currently a PhD candidate in visual studies at UC Santa Cruz, her current work investigates the relationship between the black radical imagination, black desire, and safe space.
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University of California, Santa Cruz
Cathy Thomas is a UC President's Dissertation Year Fellow at UC Santa Cruz examining carnivalesque in Caribbean literature with her spec fiction novel Poco Mas. She has worked for NBC, CBS, Warner Bros. and in film development for Forest Whitaker. She is a script reader for Annapurna...
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