Arianne Zwartjes and Aisha Sabatini Sloan read from their writing, followed by a book signing.
Arianne Zwartjes
Arianne Zwartjes is the author of an essay collection titled Detailing Trauma: A Poetic Anatomy (University of Iowa Press, 2012). Her previous works include Disem(body), The Surfacing of Excess, and (Stitched) A Surface Opens: Essays. She won the 2011 Gulf Coast prize for nonfiction, and her poetry and prose have appeared in Ninth Letter, No Tell Motel, Terrain, Cue, and Front Porch. Zwartjes serves as the director of the wilderness program at the United World College in northern New Mexico.
Aisha Sabatini Sloan
Aisha Sabatini Sloan is the author of an essay collection titled The Fluency of Light: Coming of Age in a Theater of Black and White (University of Iowa Press, 2013). Her essays have been published in Ninth Letter, Identity Theory, The Michigan Quarterly Review, Callaloo, and The Southern Review. Her collection of essays, was published by the. She is a contributing editor for Guernica Magazine. She teaches writing at the University of Arizona.