Authors on Exile
Schedule
Tue, 21 Jan, 2025 at 07:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
1105 S Washington Ave, Lansing, MI, United States, Michigan 48910 | Lansing, MI
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Join us for an evening of readings on the theme of "Exile". Featuring Shastri Akella, Samiya Bashir, and Aisha Sabatini Sloan. Co-produced by MSU Residential College in Arts and Humanities Center for Poetry and Writing, Rhetoric and Cultures Program, with special thanks to Michael Copperman.6:30 doors, 7PM reading.
Shastri Akella's debut novel, The Sea Elephants, was published in 2023 by Flatiron Books (USA) and Penguin (India). They were a winner of the 2023 BLR Goldenberg Prize for Fiction, the 2024 Black Warrior Review Summer Contest and the 2024 William Faulkner Short Story Contest. Their story was selected for the 2024 Best American Short Stories anthology. They teach creative writing at Michigan State University.
Samiya Bashir, called a “dynamic, shape-shifting machine of perpetual motion,” by Diego Báez, is a poet, writer, librettist, performer, and multi-media poet whose solo and collaborative work has been widely published, performed, installed, printed, screened, experienced, and Oxford comma’d from Berlin to Düsseldorf, Amsterdam to Accra, Florence to Rome, and across the United States. Bashir is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Field Theories, winner of the Oregon Book Award. Her fourth, I Hope This Helps, is forthcoming in Spring 2025. Samiya’s honors include the Rome Prize in Literature, Pushcart Prize, New York Council for the Arts, and Oregon’s Regional Arts & Culture Council fellowships, among numerous other awards, grants, and residencies. A sought-after editor, Bashir serves as the June Jordan Visiting Scholar at Columbia University. She lives in Harlem, NYC.
Aisha Sabatini Sloan is the author of The Fluency of Light, Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit, Borealis, and Captioning the Archives. She is the winner of the CLMP Firecracker Award, the 1913 Open Prose Contest, the National Magazine Award for Columns and Commentary, the Jean Córdova prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction, the Lambda Literary Awards for Bisexual Nonfiction, and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. She is an assistant professor of English at the University of Michigan.
Samiya Bashir: https://samiyabashir.com/
Aisha Sabatini Sloan: https://www.aishasabatinisloan.com/
Shastri Akella: https://www.shastriakella.com/
Michael Copperman is an assistant professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric and American Cultures at Michigan State University. His work has appeared in The Oxford-American, Guernica, The Sun, Creative Nonfiction, Boston Review, Salon, Gulf Coast, Triquarterly, Kenyon Review and Copper Nickel, among others, and has won awards and garnered fellowships from the Munster Literature Center, Breadloaf Writers Conference, Oregon Literary Arts, and the Oregon Arts Commission. His memoir Teacher: Two Years in the Mississippi Delta (University Press of Mississippi 2017), about the rural black public schools of the Mississippi Delta, was a finalist for the 2018 Oregon Book Award in CNF.
Mike Copperman: https://www.mikecopperman.com/
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