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QUINTAN ANA WIKSWO 185 Clinton Avenue #7A, Brooklyn NY 11205 917.691.1999 / [email protected] QUINTANWIKSWO.COM BUMBLEMOTH.COM Hailed as "heady, euphoric, singular, surprising" by Publishers Weekly, “obliterates boundaries of form, structure, genre and medium like a typhoon” by The Rumpus, “universal and personal, comforting and jarring, ethereal and earthy” by Electric Literature, and acclaimed by The Millions as “one of the few writers most necessary to read at this point in time,” Quintan Ana Wikswo develops conceptually-based trans-disciplinary hybrid works that integrate her fiction, poetry, nonfiction, memoir, essay, and emerging forms with her original photographs, performance, visual art, video installation, and cross-disciplinary collaborations. The author of three books in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid forms, Wikswo publishes regularly in Guernica, Tin House, and others. Her more than forty-five text-based collaborative interdisciplinary works are currently touring and in major collections including the Brooklyn Museum, the Berlin Jewish Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, the Ronald Feldman Gallery NYC, and others. Her work has been translated into fifteen languages. Her books and public works surround the intersectionality of gender, disability, queerness, class, and race in place and time, with a focus on conflict and post-conflict zones, crimes against humanity, genocide, multigenerational aftermath issues, and military service. Her work surrounds obscured sites and prismatic and fractured narrative at sites of occluded and marginalized histories. A human rights strategist and field worker since 1988, she is an advocate for all those working in intersectional self-expression and collaboration. EDUCATION 2002 SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY M.F.A. in Creative Writing (Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, and Hybrid Forms) Special Studies: Publishing Practicum; Teaching Practicum Presidential Honors Fellow University Distinguished Service Award Editor, Fourteen Hills Literary Magazine 1998 UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN B.A. Interdisciplinary, with Honors Majors: African-American Studies, Gender Studies, Philosophy, History Minor: Military Studies Thesis: Disruptions Underground: Queer Women in the American South Thesis: Liminality in Mixed Race Literature: Négritude, Créolité, and African-American Expression Thesis: Gender in Warfare: New Approaches to Diversity, Inclusion, and Restitution University Honors and University Award in History University Honors, University Scholar, and Thesis Award in Gender and Women’s Studies Social Justice Scholar Research Award Special Recognition in African-American Studies National Merit Scholar Fellowship, National Association of Women in Science 1996 UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA International Honors Fellowship in Women, Gender and Colonialism Studies Thesis: Declarations of Independence: Gender and Race in Post-Colonialist Expression TEACHING: ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS AND VISITING LECTURESHIPS 2018-2019 COLIN POWELL SCHOOL FOR CIVIC AND GLOBAL LEADERSHIP at CITY COLLEGE NEW YORK (CUNY) Visiting Professor: English, Creative Writing, Gender Studies, and Women’s Studies Visiting Professor: Global Violence Against Women Initiative Intersectional, interdepartmental fellowship program for women of color, disabled and queer women who have experienced or worked against sexual violence in conflict zones Graduate Nonfiction Workshop The Female Fighter: Understanding Gender & Violence 2018 OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY (Norfolk, Virginia) Mina Hohenberg Darden Professor of Creative Writing, MFA and BA Department of English The Bottle Tree: Nonfiction and Hybrid Text Chapbooks about Norfolk MFA Nonfiction Workshop 2017-2018 SANTA FE UNIVERSITY OF ART AND DESIGN (Santa Fe, New Mexico) Lecturer, MFA Program Creative Writing Department Voice Made Flesh: Advanced Fiction Workshop Liberation and Literature in Poetry and Nonfiction: Writing the Manifesto Hacking the Canon: Intersectional 21st century dissident writers and the Oxbridge Canon 2014 CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK / CUNY (New York City, New York Visiting Artist and Instructor, MFA and BA Department of Theater and Speech Writing Poetry, Fiction and Nonfiction for Performance CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF ART / CCA (Oakland and San Francisco, California) Visiting Artist Lecturer, MFA and BA Social Practice Department MFA Master Class: site-specific workshop on cross-disciplinary books at social conscience sites 2013 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY / NYU (New York City, New York) Visiting Artist Lecturer, MFA and BA Department of English Queer Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry in Multidisciplinary Writing COLGATE COLLEGE (Hamilton, New York) Visiting Artist, MFA and BA School of Visual Arts / Creative Writing Department / Film Studies Program MFA Master Class: Strategies for Collaboration between Writers, Filmmakers, and Visual Artists 2010-2013 CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY AT FULLERTON (Fullerton, California) Visiting Faculty, MFA and BA Departments of Music, Radio/TV/Film, Visual Arts, Theater, and English Master Class: Poetry and Music Composition Collaboration Master Class: Poetry and the Opera Libretto Master Class: Site-Specific Nonfiction Literature and Place-based performance Master Class: Video Installation and Original Literature Quintan Ana Wikswo 6 2012 CYPRESS COLLEGE (Orange County, California) Visiting Artist, BA and MFA Conceptual Photography / Department of Fine Art Master Class: Literature, Text, Contemporary Authors and the Photographic Project 2011 YESHIVA UNIVERSITY HONORS COLLEGE (New York City, New York) Visiting Professor and Artist in Residence (MA and BA) Departments of Art, English, History, and Interdisciplinary Studies Master Class: Gender Identity and Family Memoir Master Class: Writing the Holocaust Across Generations Master Class: Writing Nonfiction, Fiction and Poetry at Sites of Atrocity STERN COLLEGE FOR WOMEN (New York City, New York) Visiting Professor and Artist in Residence (MFA, MA, BFA, BA) Departments of English, Visual Art, Art History Master Class: Gender and Memoir in Poetry, Fiction and Nonfiction Master Class: Sexuality and Taboo in Poetry, Fiction and Nonfiction Master Class: Place, Memoir, and Visual Poetics 2010 UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA AT TUCSON POETRY CENTER / CASA LIBRE DE SOLANA (Tucson, Arizona) Visiting Artist (MFA, BA) Master Class: Cross-genre poetry, fiction, nonfiction essay, and libretto Master Class: Poetics of Gender and Sexuality in Conflict Zones 2009 SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE (Amherst, Virginia) Visiting Faculty, MFA and BA Interdisciplinary Studies: Departments of English, Music, Theatre, Visual Arts BFA Master Class: poetry, fiction, and nonfiction in multi-disciplinary collaboration Master Class: Self-producing and alternative means of production for cross-disciplinary books 2008 BEYOND BAROQUE ARTS CENTER (Los Angeles, California) Instructor in Creative Writing: Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction and Hybrid Forms See Say: Text and Performance Lab for Musicians and Writers Creating the Artist Book: Creation and Publication of Cross Genre Writing and Visual Art 1999-03 SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY (San Francisco, California) Lecturer, BA and MFA Instructor Editor, Fourteen Hills Literary Journal Instructor Fiction Editor, Fourteen Hills Literary Journal Department of Creative Writing Advanced Short Story Writing + Workshop I and II Directed Studies in Hybrid Text Directed Studies: Memoir Writing in Queer Sexuality Independent Studies: Memoir Writing for Combat Veterans Independent Studies: Memoir Writing for Sex Workers Publishing Practicum: Fourteen Hills Literary Magazine 1999-05 THE ARTISTS’ STUDIO OF SAN FRANCISCO (San Francisco, California) Accredited with San Francisco State University Department of Creative Writing Director (MFA and BA level) Master Class for SOCOM Veterans (Special Operations Command): Introduction to Creative Writing Workshop for Afghanistan Veterans (Fiction, Nonfiction, Memoir and Poetry) Workshop for Mogadishu/Somalia Veterans (Fiction, Nonfiction, Memoir and Poetry) Workshop for Iraq War Veterans (Fiction, Nonfiction, Memoir and Poetry) Quintan Ana Wikswo 2 Workshop for Survivors of Gender-based Hate Crime and Rape (Fiction, Nonfiction, Memoir Poetry) Master Class for Sex Workers: Memoir Writing (Cross-Genre) Workshop for Queer Writers: Memoir and Poetry Fiction Workshop: M.F.A. Portfolio Preparation Nonfiction Workshop: M.F.A. Portfolio Preparation Poetry Workshop: M.F.A. Portfolio Preparation Workshop: Prose and Poetry in Performance Studio Workshop: Collaborative Forms SELECTED AWARDS, DISTINCTIONS & FELLOWSHIPS 2019 Corporation of Yaddo, Fellowship in Writing 2018 Top 4 Writers: Dennis Cooper’s Blog Recommended Reading: Lambda Literary Best Books – The Millions Best Books – Luna Luna Magazine Best Books – The Rumpus 2017 Co-Curator: Arlene Schloss Retrospective, Howl Gallery, NYC Photographs “Out Here Death Is No Big Deal” Acquired by Brooklyn Museum Library and Archives Pew Charitable Trust Grant for Video Installation (with composer Andrea Clearfield) Millay Colony Artist in Residency Jiwar Artist in Residency, Barcelona Convento Mertola Artist in Residency, Portugal 2016 Photographs “The Hope of Floating” Acquired by Brooklyn Museum Library and Archives PEN USA Professional Member International Association of Women in Music Excellence Award (with Pamela Madsen) International Associate of Women in Music Excellence Award (with Andrea Clearfield) SFAI 140 Presenter: Immigration and Emigration / Gender Violence on the Border 2015 Photographs “Catalpa” Acquired