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DAISY HERNANDEZ
Daisy Hernandez is co-editor of the feminist anthology Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism, which was published in 2002 by Seal Press, and has been cited by some scholars as a successor to the classic 1981 "This Bridge Called My Back", an anthology that was also by women of color and which linked feminism, race, sexuality and class. Her new memoir is titled "A Cup of Water Under My Bed."
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Join us at OutWrite to hear from these amazing OutWrite Authors.
DAISY HERNANDEZ
Daisy Hernandez is co-editor of the feminist anthology Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism, which was published in 2002 by Seal Press, and has been cited by some scholars as a successor to the classic 1981 "This Bridge Called My Back", an anthology that was also by women of color and which linked feminism, race, sexuality and class. Her new memoir is titled "A Cup of Water Under My Bed."
JAMES MAGRUDER
James Magruder was born in Washington, D.C., and moved with his family five times before settling down in Chicagoland. His newest novel, "Let Me See it", is a collection of linked stories follows two gay cousins, Tom and Elliott, from adolescence in the 1970s to adulthood in the early ’90s.
DAVID PRATT
David Pratt is the author of two novels, "Looking After Joey" (Wilde City) and the Lambda Literary Award-winning "Bob the Book" (Chelsea Station). David's story collection, "My Movie," (Chelsea Station) includes both new work and short fiction published in Christopher Street, The James White Review, Velvet Mafia, Lodestar Quarterly and other periodicals.
VENUS THRASH
Venus Thrash was a finalist in the 2012 Jean Feldman Poetry Prize and the 2009 Arktoi Poetry Prize. Her most recent poetry collection, "The Fateful Apple" mines the sensibility of the blues and these poems reside in what has come to be called by scholars the “matrix” of the blues, the intersection of shared history, artistic techniques and sensibilities, and individual creativity which marks this most defining of our cultural forms.