direction of the camera serves as
means to authentically center queer
& POC sexuality, sensuality, and
femme power across cultures.
Abram
Shalom
Himelstein
is the co-
founder of the
Neighborhood
Story Project
and the editor-in-chief at the
University of New Orleans Press.
He has written for the Daily Racing
Form, The Houston Chronicle, and
Next City. He is the author of What
the Hell Am I Doing Here? and
co-author of Tales of a Punk Rock
Nothing. At UNO he teaches English
teachers, a Publishing Workshop, and
Multicultural Education.
Kenneth
Holditch’s
work revolves
around
Tennessee
Williams
scholarship,
including being editor of the
Tennessee Williams Journal and co-
editor, along with Mel Gussow,
of the Library of America edition
of Williams’ writings. He is also a
professor emeritus at the University
of New Orleans. Holditch has
collaborated with Richard Freeman
Leavitt on Tennessee Williams and
the South and The World of Tennessee
Williams. He created the Tennessee
Williams literary walking tours and
knew the playwright.
Andrew
Holleran is
the author of
three novels, a
book of short
stories, and a
collection of
essays on AIDS. He recently retired
from the MFA program at American
University and now lives in Florida,
where he is a regular contributor to
the Gay and Lesbian Review.
Dianne
Honoré is a
New Orleans
native and
founder of
the Black
Storyville
Baby Dolls, the Amazons Benevolent
Society, and Unheard Voices of
Louisiana. She has hosted a New
Orleans history and current events
show and developed “Gumbo
Marie,” a rotating exhibit-store of
curated Louisiana history exhibits.
She won the 2013 Louisiana Creole
Research Associations Recognition
Award for contributions to the
good of society through Truthful
Historical Storytelling and the 2018
Mardi Gras Indian Hall of Fame
“Capturing the Spirit Award” for
work in the community and cultural
preservation.
Michael S.
D. Hooper,
Ph.D., is an
independent
scholar and
private tutor,
as well as
the author of Sexual Politics in the
Work of Tennessee Williams: Desire
over Protest and several essays in the
Tennessee Williams Annual Review. He
edited the Methuen Student Edition
of A Streetcar Named Desire and
contributed to A Student Handbook
to the Plays of Tennessee Williams,
edited by Katherine Weiss. His work
also appears in Tennessee Williams
in Europe: Intercultural Encounters,
Transatlantic Exchanges, edited by
John S. Bak.
Candice
Huber owns
New Orleans’
premier geeky
bookstore,
board gaming
store, and
nerd mecca: Tubby & Coo’s Mid-
City Book Shop, named after her
grandparents. She is also a writer,
blogger, and editor. Huber also
hosts the Game of Thrones podcast
Winterfell and I Can’t Get Up with
her mom, and The Writers’ Forum
on WRBH Reading Radio. She
established TALES Publishing in
2018, which has thus far published
three books.
Sacha Idell is
co-editor and
prose editor of
The Southern
Review. His
original stories
appear in
Ploughshares, Electric Literature, Gulf
Coast, and elsewhere. His translations
include work by the Japanese writers
Kyūsaku Yumeno and Toshirō Sasaki.
After a number of years spent shuffling
between San Francisco, Osaka, New
York, and Arkansas, he now lives in
Baton Rouge.
Jac Jemc’s
story
collection,
False Bingo,
will be
released in
October
2019, and her novel, Total Work of
Art, is forthcoming in 2021, both
from FSG. She is the author of The
Grip of It, My Only Wife, and A
Different Bed Every Time. Her stories
have appeared or are forthcoming
in Guernica, LA Review of Books,
Crazyhorse, The Southwest Review,
Paper Darts, Puerto Del Sol, and
Storyquarterly, among others.
David
Johnson is
Editor of
Museum
Publications
at the New
Orleans
Museum of Art. For twenty years
he edited Louisiana Cultural Vistas
magazine and later its companion
website, KnowLA.org, The Digital
Encyclopedia of Louisiana.
Hayley
Johnson is
the Head of
Government
Documents
and
Microforms
at Louisiana State University.
Johnsonhas worked with government
documents for the past eight
years and works to highlight their
importance and relevance to both
historical and present day issues. She
previously worked at the Louisiana
House of Representatives. She
is currently doing grant-funded
research investigating Camp
Livingston, Louisiana, which is
a little-known site of Japanese
American internment.
T. R.
Johnson is
a Professor
of English
and Weiss
Presidential
Fellow at
Tulane University, and is the editor
of New Orleans: A Literary History
(Cambridge University Press,
2019). He has also written books
on Lacanian psychoanalysis and
the teaching of writing. For the
last two decades, he has lived near
the Mississippi River in the 9th
Ward of New Orleans and hosted a
contemporary jazz radio program at
WWOZ 90.7 FM. He grew up in
Louisville.
Saeed
Jones is the
author of the
memoir How
We Fight for
Our Lives,
winner of the
2019 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction,
and the poetry collection Prelude to
Bruise, winner of the 2015 PEN/
Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry and
the 2015 Stonewall Book Award/
Barbara Gittings Literature Award.
The poetry collection was also a
finalist for the 2015 National Book
Critics Circle Award, as well as
awards from Lambda Literary and
the Publishing Triangle in 2015. He
lives in Columbus, Ohio and tweets
@TheFerocity.
David
Kaplan is the
curator and
cofounder of
the Tennessee
Williams
Theater
Festival in Provincetown,
Massachusetts, now in its fourteenth
year. He wrote Tennessee Williams in
Provincetown and edited Tenn at One
Hundred, a centennial collection of
biographical essays. He has staged
plays by Williams in Hong Kong
(Eccentricities of a Nightingale), in
Uruguay and Ghana (Ten Blocks on
the Camino Real), in Russia (Suddenly
Last Summer), and in New Orleans
(The Hotel Plays).
Thomas
Keith has
edited the
Tennessee
Williams
titles for New
Directions
since 2002, including four volumes
of unpublished or uncollected
one-acts. Co-editor of The Luck of
Friendship: Selected Letters of Tennessee
Williams and James Laughlin, Keith
also edited Love, Christopher Street,
an anthology of LGBT essays about
New York City by Jewelle Gomez,
Ocean Vuong, Michele Karlsberg,
Val McDermid, Felice Picano, Bob
Smith, Martin Hyatt, and others. He
has served as dramaturg for Sundance
Theater Lab, reader for Yale Drama
Prize, and currently teaches theater at
Pace University.
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