Women Writing Toward Freedom
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University Book Store presents Women Writing Toward Freedom, a virtual reading and discussion featuring authors Kristen Millares Young, Anastacia-Renée, Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum, Jean Ferruzola, and Kait Heacock . This event will take place over Zoom on Wednesday, December 2, at 6PM Pacific Time.
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Information about the authors can be found below.
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ABOUT KRISTEN MILLARES YOUNG
Kristen Millares Young is the author of the novel Subduction, a Paris Review staff pick called “whip-smart” by the Washington Post, a “brilliant debut” by the Seattle Times and “utterly unique and important” by Ms. Magazine. Subduction was named a finalist for two International Latino Book Awards. From 2018 to 2020, Kristen served as Prose Writer-in-Residence at Hugo House. Her prize-winning investigations, essays and reviews appear in the Washington Post, Literary Hub, the Guardian, and elsewhere, as well as the anthologies Latina Outsiders, Pie & Whiskey and Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort During the Time of COVID-19. @kristenmillares
ABOUT ANASTACIA-RENEE
Anastacia-Renée is a writer, educator, interdisciplinary artist, TEDx Speaker and podcaster. She is a 2020 Arc Fellow (4Culture) and Jack Straw Curator. Renée is the recipient of the James W. Ray Distinguished Artist Award for Washington Artist (2018) and was named Seattle Civic Poet (2017-2019) and Poet-in-Residence at Hugo House (2015-2017). Renée is the author of (v.) (Black Ocean) and four other books. Her work has appeared in the anthologies Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry, Spirited Stone: Lessons from Kubota’s Garden, Seismic, Seattle City of Literature and in Spark, Foglifter, Auburn Avenue, Pinwheel, The Fight and the Fiddle, Crab Creek Review, Glow, The A-Line, Poetry Northwest, Crosscut, Ms. Magazine and many more.
ABOUT KIRSTEN SUNDBERG LUNSTRUM
Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum is the author of three collections of short fiction, most recently What We Do With the Wreckage, which won the 2017 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction and was published by UGA Press in 2018. Her fiction has appeared in McSweeney's, Ploughshares, One Story, The American Scholar, North American Review, and elsewhere. Kirsten's stories have been recognized with a PEN/O. Henry Prize, a Barnes and Noble Discover New Writers designation, and fellowships from the Sewanee Writers Conference, MacDowell, and the Jack Straw Writers Program. She teaches high school near Seattle.
ABOUT JEAN FERRUZOLA
Jean Ferruzola is a writer and narrative designer based in Seattle. She received her MFA from the University of Washington and was a 2014/15 Made at Hugo House fellow. Her writing has appeared in The Los Angeles Review, Brevity, The Offing, Entropy Magazine, and Nimrod among others. She was a recipient of Artist Trust’s Grants for Artist Projects in 2016. Follow her work at jeanferruzola.com.
ABOUT KAIT HEACOCK
Kait Heacock is a fiction writer, book publicist, and occasional book reviewer. Her work has appeared most recently in Women's Review of Books, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, PANK, Literary Hub, and Evergreen Review. Her debut story collection, Siblings and Other Disappointments, came out in 2016. She is currently at work on a novel about what happens when women turn their anger outwards.
