Author Bios and Links
Author Bios
Anna Camilleri is the author of the critically acclaimed I Am a Red Dress: Incantations on a Grandmother, a Mother, and a Daughter (2005), editor of Red Light: Superheroes, Saints, and Sluts (2005), co-editor of Brazen Femme: Queering Femininity (2002), and co-author of Boys Like Her: Transfictions (1998). Anna has performed widely over the past fifteen years in Canada and the US, contributed to various community arts projects as an artist-facilitator, curated numerous performance programs, and led workshops on various aspects of cultural production. She was a founding performer with the collaborative performance troupe Taste This. She lives in Toronto. For more information on Anna's work, visit her website.
Robert Glück is the author of the novels Jack the Modernist (1985), Margery Kempe (1994), and various collections of prose and poetry, including Family Poems (1978), Elements of a Coffee Service (1983), Reader (1989), and Denny Smith (stories) (2004). He is the co-editor of Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative (2004). He was co-director of Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center, director of The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University, and an associate editor at Lapis Press. To find out more about his work and to read his essay "Long Note on New Narrative", visit the website of Narrativity: a critical journal of innovative narrative. Robert lives in San Francisco and is a Professor of Creative Writing at San Francisco State University.
Emanuel Xavier is the author of the poetry collection Americano (2002) and the forthcoming tenth anniversary edition of the novel Christ-Like (2009). He is the editor of Bullets & Butterflies: Queer Spoken Word Poetry (2005), and the editor of Mariposas: A Modern Anthology of Queer Latino Poetry (2008). He has performed extensively as a spoken word artist and has appeared on PBS' In the Life and Russell Simmons presents Def Poetry on HBO. In 1998, Emanuel founded The House of Xavier, a collective of poets, and created the annual Glam Slam competition. He is the recipient of the Marsha A. Gomez Cultural Heritage Award for his contributions to gay and Latino culture. He lives in Brooklyn, NY. For more information on Emanuel, visit his website and his mypsace page.
Larissa Lai is the author of two novels: When Fox Is a Thousand (1995), nominated for the Chapters / Books in Canada First Novel Award, and Salt Fish Girl (2002), shortlisted for the Sunburst Award, the James Tiptree Jr. Award, and the City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Award. Together with Rita Wong, she is the author of the collaborative long proem Sybil Unrest (2008). She has been the Markin-Flanagan Writer-in-Residence at The University of Calgary and Writer-in-Residence in the English Department at Simon Fraser University. Larissa is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at The University of British Columbia (UBC). She lives in Vancouver. For more information on Larissa's work, visit her website.
Sarah Schulman is the author of eight novels, including Girls, Visions and Everything (1986), People in Trouble (1990), Empathy (1992), Rat Bohemia (1995), Shimmer (1998), and The Child (2007). Her plays include Carson McCullers and Manic Flight Reaction. She is the author of the non-fiction books My American History: Lesbian and Gay Life During the Reagan/Bush Years (1994), and Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America (1998). Her upcoming books are: The Mere Future (2009), Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences (2009), and The Gentrification of the Mind: Supremacy Ideology Masquerading as Reality (2010). A long-time activist, Sarah was an active member of ACT UP and co-founded the Lesbian Avengers. Together with Jim Hubbard, she has been creating The ACT UP Oral History Project since 2001. She is a Professor of English at CUNY, College of Staten Island, and a Fellow at The New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU. She lives in New York City. For more information on Sarah's work, visit this wikipedia page. For more information on The ACT UP Oral History Project, go to this website.
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The "Zaal Rector Blancquaert" is located on the third floor.