Please join us for Tribes Spotlight Series, featuring four amazing authors sharing their work, hosted by Chavisa Woods.
This is event is FREE and open to the public.
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FEATURED GUESTS
Daphne Gottlieb stitches together the ivory tower and the gutter just using her tongue. She is the author of 10 other books including the short stories Pretty Much Dead. Other works include Dear Dawn, letters from Death Row by the “first female serial killer”, Aileen Wuornos. She lives in San Francisco, where tries to help the casualties of the city’s class war.
Bakar Wilson has received fellowships from Cave Canem, the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and the Colgate Writers’ Conference. He has performed his work at the Bowery Poetry Club, Poetry Project, The Studio Museum of Harlem, The Asian-American Writer's Workshop, and the Langston Hughes House, among others. His poetry has appeared in The Vanderbilt Review, The Lumberyard Radio Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Flicker and Spark: A Contemporary Queer Anthology, The Ostrich Review, and thekenyonreview.org, among others. A native of Memphis, Tennessee, Bakar received his B.A. in English from Vanderbilt University and his M.A. in Creative Writing from The City College of New York. He is an Adjunct Lecturer of English and Creative Writing at Borough of Manhattan Community College at CUNY.
Barbara Purcell is an arts and culture writer based in Austin, TX. Her work has appeared in Texas Monthly, the Brooklyn Rail, the Austin Chronicle, Canadian Art, and Glasstire, among others. Her fiction has appeared in Tribes Magazine, Door is a Jar, and Schuylkill Valley Journal. She is the author of Black Ice: Poems (Fly by Night Press, 2006) and has contributed to three anthologies: Heide Hatry: Heads and Tales, Yoga—Philosophy for Everyone: Bending Mind and Body, and Word: An Anthology by a Gathering of the Tribes. She is a graduate of Skidmore College.
Peggy Robles-Alvarado is a Dominican and Puerto Rican Pushcart Prize nominee, 2020 Atticus Review Poetry Contest winner, and a BRIO award winner with fellowships from CantoMundo, Desert Nights Rising Stars, The Frost Place, and VONA. With degrees in education and an MFA in Performance Studies this former teen mother, and initiated priestess in Lukumi and Palo celebrates womanhood and honors cultural rituals. She’s a three-time International Latino Book Award winner who authored Conversations With My Skin (2011), and Homage To The Warrior Women (2012). Through Robleswrites Productions, shecreated The Abuela Stories Project (2016) and Mujeres, The Magic, The Movement, and The Muse (2017). Her work has been featured on HBO Habla Women, Lincoln Center, and her poetry appears in several anthologies including The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext (2020), and What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump (2019).