AWP Offsite: The Rumpus Presents Sapphic Storytelling at The Woods

Join The Rumpus and authors Kristen Arnett, Ariel Delgado Dixon, Allegra Hyde, and Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya for an evening of Sapphic storytelling, drinks, mingling, and (if we’re lucky!) dancing. Purchase tickets for the event here. Kristen Arnett is the queer author of With Teeth (Riverhead Books, 2021) which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in fiction and the New York Times bestselling debut novel Mostly Dead Things (Tin House, 2019) which was also a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in fiction and was shortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. She was awarded a Shearing Fellowship at Black Mountain Institute and was longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize recognizing mid-career writers of fiction. Her work has appeared at The New York Times, TIME, The Cut, Oprah Magazine, Guernica, Buzzfeed, McSweeneys, PBS Newshour, The Guardian, Salon, and elsewhere. Her next book (an untitled collection of short stories) will be published by Riverhead Books (Penguin Random House). She has a Masters in Library and Information Science from Florida State University and lives in Orlando, Florida. Ariel Delgado Dixon was born and raised in Trenton, New Jersey. Her first novel, Don't Say We Didn't Warn You, was published by Random House in 2022. Her second novel, Sourland, is also forthcoming from Random House. Her writing has appeared in O: The Oprah Magazine, Kenyon Review, LitHub, and elsewhere. She works in farming and lives in Philadelphia. Allegra Hyde is the author of the novel Eleutheria, as well as the story collection Of This New World, which won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award. Her second collection, The Last Catastrophe, will be published by Vintage in 2023. Her work has appeared in The Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, The Best Small Fictions, The Best American Travel Writing, and elsewhere. She currently teaches at Oberlin College. Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya is a lesbian writer of essays, fiction, and pop culture criticism living in Orlando. She is the author of Helen House, a queer horror novelette published by Burrow Press that was selected as one of the best LGBTQ+ books of 2022 by NBC News. A 2021 Lambda Literary fellow for nonfiction, she is the managing editor of Autostraddle and the assistant managing editor at TriQuarterly. Her short stories appear/are forthcoming in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Catapult, The Offing, Joyland, and others. Please note that this event will be held around the corner at The Woods.

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