Two accomplished artists are featured at Textile Center this fall, with exhibitions contrasting divergent approaches to artistic practice. Similarly, both bring their ideas to fruition through the history, processes, and materials of textiles.

Portland-based Lee Isbara’s approach addresses the development of a visual vocabulary over time. With this, she communicates concept and emotion in mirroring her own life as a displaced person conversant in the language and culture of two countries, but not considered a full-fledged member of either one.

San Jose-based Taylor’s approach references the realm of math as an intellectual point of departure, using an intuitive sense of geometry. Her process focuses on developing complex woven structures on the loom that create imagery through controlled and layered intersecting surfaces of color and texture.

Reception for the Artists:
Thursday, September 6, 5:30 – 7pm
Susie Taylor remarks at 6:30 pm
Displaced lecture, ACC Salon Series: On the Road, by Jiseon Lee Isbara immediately following the reception at 7 pm in Textile Center Auditorium

Free and open to the public!

Exhibit Hours:
Monday – Thursday, 10 am – 7 pm,
Friday – Saturday, 10 am – 5 pm

Interested in becoming an exhibit sponsor? Visit http://bit.ly/MPD150sponsor

This fall, Minneapolis collective MPD150 presents “Making It Real: Our History with Police and Our Future Without Them,” an art exhibit exploring the power and possibility of a police-free community, featuring new work from Jacob Yeates, Sishir Bommakanti, Aja Marie Ussrey, Ali Abdirahman, and Sophea Ek.

OPENING EVENT on October 5: Performances and Panel Discussion, 6-10pm.

CLOSING EVENT on October 21: Community Discussion and Resource Sharing, 1-5pm.

GENERAL HOURS: Monday – Thursday, 11-7pm.

Organized into “past,” “present,” and “future” sections, the exhibit follows the narrative arc of MPD150’s 2017 report— a community-led performance review of the Minneapolis Police Department on the 150th anniversary of its founding. The exhibit aims to continue that culture-shifting work through art. In order to build the world in which we want to live, we have to be able to see it first. We know that the status quo is not working. We know that reform efforts are not enough. We know that safe and healthy communities without police are possible. Art is one step toward making it real.

Find more at www.mpd150.com

Deborah Jinza Thayer | Movement Architecture’s “All Hail the Queen” examines the historically censored anatomies of womxn, specifically the voice and the vagina. “All Hail the Queen” is a dance installation—an immersive environment through which the audience travels to experience shifting cultural, historical, and somatic perspectives on “the female body.” “All Hail the Queen” counters the devaluation and dismissal of womxn’s bodies with celebratory, artistic energy.

“All Hail the Queen” is a collaboration between Choreographer Deborah Jinza Thayer, Melissa Birch (Text), Composer, Janika Vandervelde, Amelia Biewald (Installation), Dancers Julia Davidson, Non Edwards, Erika Hansen, Christine Maginnis, Sharon Picasso, Eve Schulte, Erin Thompson, and Roxane Wallace, Ivan Idland (Costumes), Mary Plaster (Puppet) and Karin Olson (Lighting Design).

Illusion Theater, October 10th-14th, 2018
WED 10th, 11am child-friendly matinee, pay-as-able
THU 11th, 8pm pay-as-able night
FRI 12th, 8pm General Admission
SAT 13th, 8pm General Admission
SUN 14th, 5pm General Admission

For Tickets:
CALL: 612-339-4944 #200
RESERVE: info@illusiontheater.org
BUY ONLINE: www.illusiontheater.org

NOTE: This is a “toured” performance, meaning the audience will be guided through the accessible lobby, hallways and stage space of the Illusion Theater. Questions, needs, and accommodations can be addressed to JD7424@gmail.com

More information:
https://www.facebook.com/events/375863426286861/

Deborah Jinza Thayer | Movement Architecture’s “All Hail the Queen” examines the historically censored anatomies of womxn, specifically the voice and the vagina. “All Hail the Queen” is a dance installation—an immersive environment through which the audience travels to experience shifting cultural, historical, and somatic perspectives on “the female body.” “All Hail the Queen” counters the devaluation and dismissal of womxn’s bodies with celebratory, artistic energy.

“All Hail the Queen” is a collaboration between Choreographer Deborah Jinza Thayer, Melissa Birch (Text), Composer, Janika Vandervelde, Amelia Biewald (Installation), Dancers Julia Davidson, Non Edwards, Erika Hansen, Christine Maginnis, Sharon Picasso, Eve Schulte, Erin Thompson, and Roxane Wallace, Ivan Idland (Costumes), Mary Plaster (Puppet) and Karin Olson (Lighting Design).

Illusion Theater, October 10th-14th, 2018
WED 10th, 11am child-friendly matinee, pay-as-able
THU 11th, 8pm pay-as-able night
FRI 12th, 8pm General Admission
SAT 13th, 8pm General Admission
SUN 14th, 5pm General Admission

For Tickets:
CALL: 612-339-4944 #200
RESERVE: info@illusiontheater.org
BUY ONLINE: www.illusiontheater.org

NOTE: This is a “toured” performance, meaning the audience will be guided through the accessible lobby, hallways and stage space of the Illusion Theater. Questions, needs, and accommodations can be addressed to JD7424@gmail.com

More information:
https://www.facebook.com/events/375863426286861/

Deborah Jinza Thayer | Movement Architecture’s “All Hail the Queen” examines the historically censored anatomies of womxn, specifically the voice and the vagina. “All Hail the Queen” is a dance installation—an immersive environment through which the audience travels to experience shifting cultural, historical, and somatic perspectives on “the female body.” “All Hail the Queen” counters the devaluation and dismissal of womxn’s bodies with celebratory, artistic energy.

“All Hail the Queen” is a collaboration between Choreographer Deborah Jinza Thayer, Melissa Birch (Text), Composer, Janika Vandervelde, Amelia Biewald (Installation), Dancers Julia Davidson, Non Edwards, Erika Hansen, Christine Maginnis, Sharon Picasso, Eve Schulte, Erin Thompson, and Roxane Wallace, Ivan Idland (Costumes), Mary Plaster (Puppet) and Karin Olson (Lighting Design).

Illusion Theater, October 10th-14th, 2018
WED 10th, 11am child-friendly matinee, pay-as-able
THU 11th, 8pm pay-as-able night
FRI 12th, 8pm General Admission
SAT 13th, 8pm General Admission
SUN 14th, 5pm General Admission

For Tickets:
CALL: 612-339-4944 #200
RESERVE: info@illusiontheater.org
BUY ONLINE: www.illusiontheater.org

NOTE: This is a “toured” performance, meaning the audience will be guided through the accessible lobby, hallways and stage space of the Illusion Theater. Questions, needs, and accommodations can be addressed to JD7424@gmail.com

More information:
https://www.facebook.com/events/375863426286861/

Kulture Klub Collaborative (KKC) will celebrate the opening of This
Is Our Downtown, a multi-media exhibition of original artwork by youth experiencing homelessness. The
exhibition will be installed at Hennepin Theatre Trust’s new gallery located at 900 Hennepin Avenue; an
opening reception is scheduled for Wednesday, October 17, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. Remarks by artists
and youth will begin at 6:00 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
The exhibit is the result of a yearlong series of artist residencies, and offers unique perspectives of
downtown Minneapolis. Participants, young people between the ages of 16 and 24, collaborated with
photographer and 2018 McKnight Distinguished Artist Wing Young Huie, photographer Nancy
Musinguzi, filmmaker John Marks, and videographers Ryan Stopera and Adja Gildersleve of Free Truth
Media to create 16mm film, photographs, posters and videos that capture their views of a rapidly
changing downtown where they spend much of their lives.
KKC’s Executive Director Crystal Brinkman describes the exhibit, “Kulture Klub Collaborative continues to
examine and uplift our youth’s relationship with downtown Minneapolis. Young people have always
been an important part of the neighborhood. Their perspectives are often unheard and it’s powerful to
witness them emerge through creative practice.” This Is Our Downtown captures a moment in
Minneapolis’s history through the eyes of those who know it best.
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts
Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund. Additional support
generously provided by the McKnight Foundation, Target Foundation and individual donors.

ABOUT KULTURE KLUB COLLABORATIVE:
Founded in 1992, Kulture Klub Collaborative (KKC) brings artistic opportunity and creative connection to
both youth and working artists. KKC is the only arts organization in Minnesota that works exclusively
with young people who are currently, recently, or at-risk of experiencing homelessness or are
transitioning out of the foster care system. One of KKC’s core beliefs that fuels all programming is that
art can be a useful tool to help end homelessness and that youth experiencing homelessness have
essential perspectives on the cultural phenomena that create housing instability. KKC is housed in
YouthLink’s Youth Opportunity Center in Downtown Minneapolis, where over 2,000 youth come each
year to receive services ranging from mental health to employment assistance.

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ABOUT HENNEPIN THEATRE TRUST:
Hennepin Theatre Trust is a nonprofit organization committed to creating positive change through the
arts. It owns three historic theatres — the Orpheum, State and Pantages — and 900 Hennepin, which
serves as a central hub for the cultural district and host for the Trust’s fine arts and educational

programs, plus other community events. This photo exhibit is just one of numerous ways KKC
collaborates with the Trust. https://hennepintheatretrust.org/

Celebrate National Co-op Month with Mississippi Market Co-op, The Wedge & Linden Hills Co-op, and Valley Natural Foods

NATIONWIDE – This October, food co-ops throughout the country are bringing their unique story to 50 cities through film screenings of the critically acclaimed documentary Food For Change. The screenings are occurring during October, National Co-op Month, and include showings on college campuses, at local theaters and food co-ops, and during PBS broadcasts. Mississippi Market Natural Foods Co-op, The Wedge & Linden Hills Co-op, and Valley Natural Foods have partnered to host a local screening on Wednesday, Oct. 17 from 6:30–9 p.m. at the Riverview Theater (3800 42^nd Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN 55406).

This 82-minute documentary tracks the ups and downs of cooperatives since the Great Depression through rare archival footage, animation, graphics, and interviews with renowned cooperative leaders. Co-ops are organizing screenings to educate their members and the public about the nation’s longest surviving alternative economic system—a social movement based on principles of cooperation. Attendees will gain a better understanding of the important role food co-ops throughout the country have played in affecting dynamic social and economic change over the past century.

After the screening, director and producer Steve Alves, an internationally acclaimed filmmaker and member of the Franklin Community Co-op in Greenfield, Mass., will lead a Q&A session with film screening participants. Alves, who narrates the film he directed, sees the story’s theme of cooperation as particularly relevant to today’s political climate. “It’s American history, from the Great Depression to the present, with co-ops as the protagonist,” says Alves. “Food co-ops introduced whole and organic foods to the American diet in the 1970s; today they are the champions of local food systems.”

“Across the U.S. we’re experiencing a new renaissance of cooperation as people seek to meet their needs, and a new set of challenges in this fiercely competitive, disruptive retail environment,” says Gail Graham, General Manager of Mississippi Market in St. Paul, Minn. “We want the public to know the story behind local food cooperatives, what we stand for, and how we’ve adapted to a changing marketplace while retaining our core cooperative values.”

Tickets are available to all Twin Cities food co-op members for $3 apiece and at $5 for non-co-op members. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.; film begins at 7 p.m.

View Film Trailer | Purchase Tickets

Register for the 8th Annual Social Justice Education Fair!https://goo.gl/forms/j5nUUfyJmfEkyzeI2
Free for youth, 0-$40 for others. #SJEF18

The theme this year is “We’re Fed Up! Bite the Hands that Feed Us: Resisting the Menu of Schooling”. We are also happy to announce a new location for the fair…. the Science Museum of Minnesota! The Ed Fair planning committee would like to give a HUGE thank you to folks from the Kitty Andersen Youth Science Center (KAYSC) for keeping the Ed Fair going by opening up their space. We are very excited about our new location, and the opportunity to continue expanding the Ed Fair community. Please spread the registration to all your networks. The fair is taking place Thursday October 18th from 8-4pm. It will feature a keynote with Appetite for Change and Ricardo Levins Morales.

Other things to consider:
+We still need volunteers! It takes many hands the day before and of the fair to make it happen. You can sign up to volunteer when you register.
+Please register ASAP so we can get accurate numbers for food. You can register individually or for a group.
+If your organization would like to donate or to table at the fair, its not too late. See tcedfair.org or email tcedfair@gmail.com.
+Though the fair is entirely organized by volunteers, we need money to pay for food, childcare, interpretation, printing, and other fair expenses. Please if you can, donate when you register. The fair asks a suggested donation of $0-$40, which can be paid online or day of.
+Parking in downtown St Paul may be challenging. More information will be coming soon about parking logistics. We encourage people to take the green line and get off at Central station.
+The Science Museum is offering free tickets to all fair attendees.

The Critical Disability Studies Collective Presents:
Disability Justice in Activism & Organizing: Local Action to Statewide Change – A Panel Discussion.

PANELISTS INCLUDE:
Rick Cardenas / Longtime local disability activist and organizer currently working with the the ReConnect Rondo Project.

Mai Thor / Civic Engagement Coordinator at the Minnesota Department of Human Rights.

Octavian E. Robinson / Professor of ASL, Interpreting Studies, and Communications Equity at St. Catherine University.

Nikki Villivicencio-Tollison / Current Candidate for Maplewood City Council and Disability Rights Activist.

Panel Moderated by Jay Wilson / Senior Access Consultant at the Disability Resource Center at the University of Minnesota.

Light Refreshments Provided.

This event will be ASL-interpreted. Please let us know if you plan to attend and will be using interpreting so that we can make sure to meet your needs! Email us at CDSCol@umn.edu to coordinate access needs & accommodations.

Screening of the film, Exposure to Radiation: Post X-Years, about the lasting effects of radiation exposure from nuclear bomb testing in the Pacific in the 1950s. Event at 9:45 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. in the university Founders Hall auditorium, 700 7th St East, Saint Paul.

This free screening is hosted in conjunction with the 67th Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (MCAA), featuring two days of expert presentation and discussion of scholarly prepared topics relating to Asian studies, as well as topical and current-event related issues in Asia, such as global and international politics and economics. The conference draws experts and academics in the field of Asian studies from all over the world.

The Society of Women Engineers (SWE), Girl Scouts, WGBH’s Design Squad Global, Techbridge, and the ExxonMobile Foundation have teamed up for the 9th annual Invent it. Build it. event. Invent it. Build it. is an experience designed to encourage middle school and high school girls to choose a career in engineering. If you are interested, please visit https://bit.ly/1KgCyIA and click here to register: http://bit.ly/2FdromY
It is only $5-$7.

Here is a link to more information: http://societyofwomenengineers.swe.org/invent-it-build-it

And here is the link to the sign up: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/invent-it-build-it-2018-tickets-44638280298

This public outreach event will screen the short film Human Error, about post-earthquake/tsunami/explosion recovery in a small town near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Reactor, and a preview of Under the Mushroom Cloud, featuring interviews with survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. A discussion will follow with film directors Yoh Kawano and Kyle Whitney. Panelists include area experts on North Korea, China, India and Pakistan as well as community members deeply engaged in peace education. Event at 2 p.m., Oct. 20, Student Center, 690 7th St East.

This free event is hosted in conjunction with the 67th Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (MCAA), featuring two days of expert presentation and discussion of scholarly prepared topics relating to Asian studies, as well as topical and current-event related issues in Asia, such as global and international politics and economics. The conference draws experts and academics in the field of Asian studies from all over the world.

“Mni Wiconi” ( Water is life in Lakota) is an interactive art installation made from a Skill Crane fabricated into an art gallery and the prizes are created by the students participating in the American Indian Youth, Department of Indian Work, Interfaith Action of Greater St Paul. This activity is made possible by the voters Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund. American Indian Youth produced mini-art pieces contained in recycled water bottles that the public can try to win from the “Skill Crane Art Mni Wiconi Gallery. Students fabricated the machine with thematic cultural imagery such as water, land, air, fire, clan animals, Lakota Virtues and Ojibwe Grandfather Teachings.

Thank you for coming to the opening of the Mni Wiconi Gallery for your chance to win original art by our students!

Pretendians is a Native rock band that is based in Minneapolis. Three out of four of our members represent the Oceti Sakowin (7 Council Fires) of the Dakhota and Lakhota Nations. Many of our songs have societal/political influence and views from a modern Indigenous perspective.

**Please be sure to check our website, www.cancanwonderland.com, for the most up-to-date information

Join Telling Queer History at the Tretter Collection (LGBTQ+ archives) for storytelling across generations and LGBTQ identities.

Theme: QUEER SPACES – We will reflect on the places we have called home in the past, where we gather now, and how to make spaces more safe for more people.

Featured Storytellers: Rox Anderson, Heather Spear, Tif Dynamite, Myra Billund-Phibbs and more. The trailer from Pam Colby’s “Fertile Ashes” will also be featured.
Gather with us from 2-4:30pm on October 21st.

Free event, free food, all ages, sober space.
Child care provided. ASL interpretation available, please request. Please contact us if you have any specific accessibility requests. Contact us: hello@tellingqueerhistory.com

Parking and directions:
https://www.lib.umn.edu/special/getting-archives
222 – 21st Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55455 We have found that many GPS units do not accurately place our building on their maps. These are very clear maps with excellent driving directions on the link above.
The gathering will be on the 3rd floor. There are elevators accessible from the north and south entrances.

2 – 2:30 Add stories to the paper timeline around the room, watch a trailer for “Fertile Ashes,” and meet new people.
2:30 – 2:45 Introduction to the gathering and space
2:45 – 3:45 Listen to stories from Rox Anderson, Heather Spear and Tif Dynamite
345 – 4:15 open story sharing from the attendees
4:15-4:30 closing ritual

TELLING QUEER HISTORY is a series of gatherings based on sharing stories in an open, informal, and participatory format. It’s about connecting queer communities, queer history and generations so that we can learn from our shared past, present, and future.*

*Allies are welcome to join, listen and volunteer. Hearing our stories is a great way to be an ally, allowing and assisting us in having the space to tell our stories is a way to be an advocate. Thanks!

The Vail Place Performers are back for this year’s theatrical fundraising program – hosted by renowned close-up magician Suzanne and presented by our imaginary, but not illusory, KVAIL radio station. Do You Believe in Magic and Mental Health? is a mesmerizing hour of real – and really magical – stories! Vail Place members, board, volunteers, and staff achieved enchantment in conjuring a performance that breaks the spell of mental illness stigma and unveils the illusions and realities of mental health recovery!

There are TWO opportunities to immerse yourself in this magical event on Thursday, October 25, 2018. Join us for breakfast from 8-9am OR for lunch 12-1pm at the Metropolitan Ballroom.
To RSVP or for more information contact Michael Hofland:
952.945.4234; mhofland@vailplace.org.

The Metropolitan Ballroom is located at 5418 Wayzata Blvd in Minneapolis.

Ron Stallworth will headline Beth El Synagogue’s next Heroes Among Us Speaker Series.

In 1978, the first black detective in the Colorado Springs Police department, answered a classified ad posted by the local Ku Klux Klan faction. Detective Ron Stallworth used his real name and some racist epithets to throw the recruiter off the truth, and as a result, Stallworth received a warm welcome and a request for a face-to-face meeting. So begins the incredible true story Stallworth retells in BLACK KLANSMAN: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime, a fascinating and timely non-fiction account that reads like a crime thriller.

This story has recently been translated to the big screen, with Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman. Produced by Jordan Peele, the film is the winner of the 2018 Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Stallworth is played by John David Washington.

During his seven months of undercover work, Stallworth sent his white partner to any in-person Klan meetings, while he remained the man on the other end of the phone-line. In his time with the organization, Stallworth succeeded in sabotaging: cross burnings, attempts by the Klan to further expand their membership and attempts to weaponize a militia. He met and befriended David Duke (on the phone; in person their relationship is less than warm), and exposed high level government officials who had been secretly meeting with the Klan.

This captivating true story of one of the most audacious, and incredible undercover investigations in history.

Recognizing the work our Law Enforcement has done to combat hate and bigotry is precisely why Ron Stallworth is our next Heroes Among Us speaker.

VIP – $360

Once in a Lifetime Opportunity! Includes one premium ticket with special, upfront assigned seating and admission to a private VIP reception with Ron Stallworth at 5:30pm, prior to the general presentation. The VIP reception will feature delectable fare. Reception level attendees will also receive a copy of Ron’s book Black Klansman. $300 is tax deductible.*

Priority Seating – $100

One seat in a special reserved section near the front. $64 is tax deductible.*

General Admission – $36

One general admission ticket. (Limited Availability)

Military & First Responders General Admission – $18

One general admission ticket for those with a valid military (active or reserve duty), police, firefighter, or EMS ID.

This expo is intended to support the work of Black authors and to engage our community. This event will give Black authors a chance to display their talents, network and meet the community and other authors.
Come meet, greet, buy books and get them signed from a diverse group of Black authors in the Twin Cities. There will be a wide selection to choose from. Non Fiction, Self Help, Urban Fiction, Christian Fiction, Empowerment, Hip Hop Love Stories, Coming of Age, and Children Books. We will have performances, live readings, and great panel discussions with the authors themselves.

THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
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Authors interested in selling books at this event must register as an exhibitor at www.MnBlackauthorsexpo.com to reserve their spot and sell products at this event.

No shared booths unless co-authors.

Registration tables are $100.

Sponsorships – Request sponsorship Sheet

*All fees are nonrefundable*

Kirsten Delegard will talk about the research the team behind Mapping Prejudice is working on and the map designed to help us understand the legacy of historic practice in housing discrimination.

The Mapping Prejudice project charts the spread of racially-restrictive covenants – property restrictions that prevented non-whites from purchasing or occupying certain parcels of land. The covenants were made illegal by the Fair Housing Act, landmark legislation authored by a young Senator Walter Mondale, that sought to remedy housing discrimination by addressing segregation and promoting integration. Our exhibit Owning Up was motivated by the 50th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act and an opportunity to reflect on the legislation and present-day outcomes.

Mapping Prejudice is based in the Borchert Map Library at the University of Minnesota. Project researchers have analyzed over 1.4 million historic Minneapolis housing deeds and have found racist language in more than 20,000 documents.

This is part of a multi-event series, Racism, Rent, and Real Estate: Fair Housing Reframed. You can find out about other events in that series athttp://mhponline.org/communications/racism-rent-and-real-estate-fair-housing-reframed.

Space is limited, please purchase your tickets in advance.

Visiting the museum requires the use of stairs.

lease join us at Moon Palace Books to welcome our esteemed guests: legend Ray Gonzalez, brilliant V.V Sugi Ganeshananthan, and new poetry faculty member/rockstar Douglas Kearney from the U’s MFA Program!!

ALSO, we are absolutely thrilled to welcome Brooklyn-based poet & friend Asiya Wadud whose debut poetry collection “Crosslight for Youngbird” (Nightboat Books) was just released on October 2, 2018 (TODAY)––hot off the press!!! Read about Asiya’s next two books (!!!) and other amazing projects at www.asiyawadud.com.

Each luminous writer will read from their rich body of work, then they will sit with Sun Yung Shin to have a conversation (aka real talk) about race, borders, privilege & myths (not necessarily in this order) in their work, and how these things relate to MFA programs, and if MFA programs are just extensions of white supremacy b/c academia (& other systems of oppression) & b/c racism. As Ray Gonzalez nears retirement after 20+ years at the U , he’s said, “I’m ready to talk.” (He’s been the only POC writer until Sugi was hired in 2015, with the exception of Ojibwe novelist David Treuer’s brief tenure as fiction faculty.) Please read below their impressive bios.

FREE & open to everyone!! Moon Palace Books serves the best pizza in town ; they also serve beer & wine; vegan options. Grab dinner while witnessing some pure genius then buy books!

************************OUR STELLAR READERS***********************

V.V. GANESHANANTHAN
V.V. Ganeshananthan is the author of the novel Love Marriage, which was longlisted for the Orange Prize and named one of Washington Post Book World’s Best of 2008. She is a recent recipient of the Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin, a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Fiction, and a fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. She is at work on a second novel, excerpts of which have appeared in Granta, Ploughshares, and Best American Nonrequired Reading. She has been visiting faculty at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the University of Michigan, and presently teaches in the MFA program at the University of Minnesota.

Photo credit: Annette Hornischer, courtesy of the American Academy in Berlin

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RAY GONZALEZ
Ray Gonzalez is the author of 16 books of poetry including the new Cutting the Wire: Poetry and Photography from the U. S.–Mexican Border (University of New Mexico Press), a collaboration with El Paso poet Lawrence Welsh and photographer Bruce Berman. He received a 2017 Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress.

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DOUGLAS KEARNEY
Douglas Kearney’s most recent collection, Buck Studies (Fence Books, 2016), is a Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize winner, a CLMP Firecracker awardee, and California Book Award silver medalist. Publisher’s Weekly called Kearney’s Mess and Mess and (Noemi Press, 2015) “an extraordinary book.” He teaches at the University of Minnesota.

Photo credit: Rafael Hernandez

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ASIYA WADUD
Asiya Wadud’s debut collection, Crosslight for Youngbird, was released from Nightboat Books in October 2018, and Syncope (Ugly Duckling Presse) and No Knowledge Is Complete Until It Passes Through My Body (Nightboat) will be out in 2019 and 2020, respectively. Her work has been supported by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Dickinson House, Mount Tremper Arts, and the New York Public Library, among others. Recent work can be found in Chicago Review, Best American Experimental Writing 2018, and Tupelo Quarterly. She teaches poetry at Saint Ann’s School and leads an English conversation class for new immigrants Wednesday evenings at the Brooklyn Public Library.