“Compensation” shows itself as a consistent, gendered thread in my life story.

    A story in parts   A list of things I thought of and

    What does genre mean to you and how does it build/unbuild your work?

occasional elements and bodies they make   Sunlight, consequence of sun, wakes me. Sweeps slow,

    Pluto   If we were starfish (who can regenerate limbs), what would trauma

      What does genre mean to you and how does it build/unbuild your

I wanted to belong — but I didn’t want to dress like everyone else. Down

I want to write about tierra, which means soil or earth to my people, maybe

Every year it was the same. The then Milwaukee Sentinel printed the pictures of all

Several years ago during my first semester in graduate school, some of my classmates and

Disclaimer One: The intended audience for this talk is mainly white writers, so I use

There has never been a consensus or even a plurality agreement among writers who identify

In 2014, I spoke on a panel called “Crossing (Imagined) Borders: Research, Writing, and the