Vanessa Angélica Villarreal will discuss using speculative nonfiction techniques as a social justice strategy on March 3.
Join Vanessa Angélica Villarreal and Alex Marzano-Lesnevich for a nerdy/accessible, heady/grounded discussion about using speculative nonfiction techniques as a social justice strategy. These techniques offer us a way to critique hegemonic representations and erasures, writing a fuller story into being – come find out how.
Audience & Location
- Everyone is welcome to attend this free event.
- The event will be live-streamed on Zoom.
Speakers
Vanessa Angélica Villarreal is the author of Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders (Tiny Reparations Books, Penguin, 2024), longlisted for the National Book Award, and Beast Meridian (Noemi Press, 2017), recipient of a 2019 Whiting Award, a Kate Tufts Discovery Award nomination, and winner of the John A. Robertson Award for Best First Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters. She is a 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, and holds a doctorate in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where she lives with her son.
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich is the author of THE FACT OF A BODY: A Murder and a Memoir, which received a Lambda Literary Award, the Chautauqua Prize, the Grand Prix des Lectrices Elle, the Prix des libraires du Quebec, and the Prix France Inter-JDD. A 2023 United States Artists fellow, Marzano-Lesnevich has also received awards and honors from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Eccles Centre at the British Library, the Heinrich Böll Foundation, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the Maine Arts Commission, the Camargo Foundation, Civitella Ranieri, and Dora Maar, among others, and is a two-time Yaddo and three-time MacDowell fellow. Marzano-Lesnevich writes frequently about transgender and LGBTQ lives, histories, and narratives.
