Nov
17
1:00am
Shake Up the Status Quo: a collaboration between The Rumpus's Voices on Addiction & Kitchen Table Literary Arts
By The Rumpus
Join The Rumpus and Kitchen Table Literary Arts for an evening of powerful readings by Rumpus Voices on Addiction contributors Nilsa Ada Rivera, Iris (Yi Youn) Kim, Jasmin Lankford, Vanessa Mártir, and Heather Stokes. This event is curated and co-hosted by Kitchen Table Literary Arts Founder Sheree Greer and Kelly Thompson The Rumpus's Voices on Addiction Editor. This event will celebrate the collaboration between our two organizations and our effort to increase the visibility of women writers of color and their stories across the spectrum of addiction.
Suggested donation of $20. Pay what you can, no one turned away due to lack of funds. Proceeds will be divided equally between the 2 host organizations---Kitchen Table Literary Arts and The Rumpus.
Featuring readings by new Rumpus contributors. . .
Nilsa Ada Rivera is a multi-media writer who tells stories about housing insecurity and other intersecting topics. Her work appears in the Hippocampus Magazine, Huffington Post, 50 GS Magazine, Six Hens Literary Journal, Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, Selkie Literary Magazine, Writing Class Radio, and Turning Dark into Light... Her essay published in Home in Florida: Latinx Writers and The Literature of Uprootedness anthology was nominated for the 2022 Pushcart Prize. She received her MFA in Writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She may be found online on IG and FB @nilsawrites and YT @nilsaada
Iris (Yi Youn) Kim is a writer and producer living in Los Angeles covering Asian American identity, politics, and culture. Her work has appeared in NYT Tiny Love Stories, Harper's Bazaar, NBC Asian America, Electric Literature, Salon, Slate, and TIME. She is a 2022 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow, a 2022 U.S.-South Korea Center for Public Diplomacy NextGen Creative Fellow, and a Gold House Futures Journalism Accelerator participant. She is a graduate of the Tin House and VONA summer workshops.
Jasmin Lankford is a poet, essayist, and teaching artist from Florida. In addition to Pushcart Prize and Sundress Publications’ Best of the Net nominations, her work has been published online, in print, and in a gallery exhibition. Jasmin graduated from the University of South Florida with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications and completed her Creative Writing Minor in France at the American University of Paris. She currently works in social media marketing and hosts a travel video series. For more information, visit jasminlankford.com.
And two writers who have previously published essays in The Rumpus's Voices on Addiction column:
Vanessa Mártir, a multi-genre writer and editor, is the founder of the Writing Our Lives Workshop and the Writing the Mother Wound Movement. She is a 2021 Letras Boricuas fellow, and her work has been widely published, including in The NY Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, Longreads, The Rumpus, and the anthologies Not That Bad, edited by Roxane Gay and So We Can Know, edited by Aracelis Girmay. When she's not writing or teaching, you can find Vanessa hiking an old growth forest. For more, visit vanessamartir.com.
Heather Stokes is a Connecticut based writer whose experiences as a black woman and a convicted felon have fueled her passion to bring healing and health to BIPOC communities all over. In addition to her full-time job in the energy efficiency field, Heather is a doula with Earth’s Natural Touch, the largest black owned doula organization in the Northeast. Her goal is to serve women who are planning to give their children up for adoption and women who will be giving birth while incarcerated. As a felon, she recognizes the need for a healing community for these women. When she is not plotting to save the world one BIPOC community at a time, she takes care of her niece & sister. They, along with her colorful life experiences, provide the background for her writing.
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