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Jack Jones Literary Arts Speakers Bureau Necessary, Provide Profes- for More Information Or Extends This Ambitious Endeavor Jack Jones Literary Arts Speakers Bureau Jack Jones Literary Arts Speakers Bureau Jack Jones Literary Arts creates publicity The Jack Jones Literary The Jack Jones Literary campaigns for bold, forward-thinking, literary Arts Speakers Bureau Arts Speakers Bureau writing that moves readers. Since our inception in offers an efficient process roster is unparalleled. We that will help you book represent an eclectic mix, 2015, Jack Jones Literary Arts has been ensuring one of our clients for your including award winners that underappreciated and unorthodox writers— next reading, lecture Angela Flournoy, John especially black women, women of color, and series, or any other Keene, and Terese Marie queer women—receive the attention they deserve. engagement with ease. Mailhot. 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Each one of our speakers that you might wish to is engaging and provides fresh and innovative have our client address or perspectives on crucial and interesting issues. discuss with your audience. 2 3 “Soon Quincy and Russell spilled into the hallway. They saw Cha-Cha, P all elbows and fists, swinging at the haint. It had let go of Cha-Cha's collar and was now on the defensive. R Quincy would later insist that the haint emitted a blue, electric-looking light, and each time Cha-Cha's fists O connected with its body the entire thing flickered like a faulty lamp.” S —Excerpted from speaker Angela Flournoy’s The Turner House, E Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 4 5 Gabrielle Civil Artist Statement: As a black feminist performance artist, poet/writer, and community arts activist, I am passionate about art, identity, creative practice, and social change. With dynamism and verve, I have welcomed diverse audiences at universities, conferences, libraries, museums, and community centers. My artist talks, performance-lectures, and workshops tackle art & activism, black women’s creative expression, embodying justice, artful questions, body love, multicultural education, and experiments in joy. I have also facilitated book club conversations about my own book Swallow the Fish and books by other authors. The aim of my work is to open up space. P Biography: R Gabrielle Civil is a black feminist performance artist, originally from Detroit, MI. She has premiered almost fifty original performance O art works around the world including a year-long investigation as a S Fulbright Fellow in Mexico and a trilogy after the 2010 earthquake in E Haiti. Recent performances include “Q&A” (Chicago), “a ritual of nest and flight” (Toronto); and “…hewn and forged….” (Salt Lake City). Since Almore Aly credit: Photo May 2014, she has been performing “Say My Name (an action for 270 abducted Nigerian girls)” as an act of embodied remembering. Her art writing has appeared in The Third Rail, Art21, Small Axe, and Obsidian. Her essays and translations have appeared in Something on Paper, Aster(ix), and Two Lines. Her memoir-in-performance-art Swallow the Fish was named by Entropy a “Best Non-Fiction Book of 2017.” She earned her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from New York University. For the 2017- 2018 academic year, Civil served as the Laura C. Harris Scholar-in-Resi- dence in Women’s & Gender Studies at Denison University. She currently teaches MFA Creative Writing courses and BFA Critical Studies courses at CalArts. Her next book Experiments in Joy will be published by CCM in February 2019. 6 7 Ingrid Rojas Contreras Artist Statement: I grew up in Bogotá, Colombia, the daughter of an ex-communist intellectual and a psychic from a line of seers. I am attracted to politics and magic like moth to a light. In my essays and stories I investigate the shifting grounds of knowledge involved in understanding the world and the self. My novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree is a story of political conflict born into the lives of children and explores issues of class, privilege, luck, and gender and how girls and women navigate these landmines of powerlessness. It is an immigration story, drawing on the complex experience of crossing a border, where the resounding fullness of the Photo credit: Jeremiah Barber Jeremiah credit: Photo self is also revealed to be a cavity. English isn’t my mother tongue, but it is the one I choose as an immigrant whose sense of home has relied for P many years on unbelonging. Both in my writing and life I am impressed by what can be translated and what is irredeemably untranslatable. R I gravitate toward stories that are marginal: I have written about losing O my memory after a bike accident, interviewed former guerrilla members, S and am currently working on a family memoir about my grandfather, a curandero who it was said had the power to move clouds. E Biography: Ingrid Rojas Contreras is the author of Fruit of the Drunken Tree (Doubleday, 2018). She was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. Her essays and short stories have appeared in Nylon, Los Angeles Review of Books, Electric Literature, Guernica, and Huffington Post, among others. She received fellowships from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. She currently teaches writing to immi- grant high school students as part of a San Francisco Arts Commission initiative bringing artists into public schools. She is the book columnist for KQED. 8 9 Desiree Cooper Artist Statement: As a Pulitzer Prize-nominated columnist, award-winning author, former attorney and a former public radio personality, I’ve dedicated my career to lifting the voices of women and children. I am an engaging speaker on the themes of racial and gender equality, reproductive freedom, family-positive public policy, and the welfare of women and girls. Caught between caregiving for my aging parents, launching my millennial children and supporting my grandchildren, I write widely P about women, self-care and reinvention. I am a skilled creative writing R workshop facilitator who conducts readings from her latest book, Know the Mother, like an “instant book club.” O S Biography: E A 2015 Kresge Artist Fellow, Desiree Cooper is a former attorney, Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist and Detroit community activist whose fiction Millhouse Justin credit: Photo dives unflinchingly into the intersection of racism and sexism. Using the compressed medium of flash fiction, she explores intimate spaces to reveal what it means to be human. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Callaloo, Detroit Noir, Best African American Fiction 2010, and Tidal Basin Review, among other online and print publications. Her debut collection, Know the Mother, was published by Wayne State University Press in March 2016. Desiree Cooper is based in Virginia. 10 11 “I’ve thought so often, Phoebe said, of the idea that longing should be allowed the chance to find its object. Since desire pleads to have more, I’ll inhabit that space. It’s a privilege to have loved: with each loss, P I’ve gained practice in the divine. P R I haven’t given up loving my mother R O O S just because she died. If she’d taken S E a trip, the love wouldn’t end. It’s not E so different, except that I haven’t known when, and if, she’ll return.” —Excerpted from speaker R.O. Kwon’s The Incendiaries, Riverhead Books 12 13 Tananarive Due Artist Statement: I speak on artists and activism, social justice, Afrofuturism, writing (craft), Octavia E. Butler and the rise of black science fiction, and fantasy and horror as tools for resistance. In addition to being a novelist and screenwriter, I co-authored a civil rights memoir, Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights, with my late mother, civil rights leader Patricia Stephens Due. Biography: P Tananarive Due is a former Cosby Chair in the Humanities at Spelman R College (2012-2014), where she taught screenwriting, creative writing O and journalism. She also teaches in the creative writing MFA program S at Antioch University Los Angeles. The American Book Award winner and NAACP Image Award recipient is the author of twelve novels and a E civil rights memoir.
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