Storytellers for How to Build a Fire: Silent Violence
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STORYTELLERS:
VIRGINIA GOGGIN:
Virginia Goggin is a queer, vegan, attorney who is “gay for pay.” She is the founder and director of the Legal Services Department at the New York City Anti-Violence Project (AVP) representing LGBTQ survivors of hate violence, intimate partner violence and institutional violence. Virginia is a serious animal lover and has 2 adorable pit bull rescue pups.
RAJAT SINGH:
Rajat Singh is an essayist who’s lived, worked, and written in New York since 2008. He holds an MA in anthropology and a BA in Latin, and bears many scars from working in the fashion industry. His writing appears in Moving Truth(s), an anthology of queer South Asian stories on family, and he’s a staff writer for Kajal magazine. Ever the troglodyte, he’s warily embracing social media and learning how to tweet @ruhjut.
VIXON JOHN:
“Video” Vixon J. is a videographer/filmmaker based out of Brooklyn, NY. Since 2008, he has been producing videos online, from recording musical performances to eventually working with independent artists and other media entities. Currently, Vixon is the creator of a profile series, Minute Made NY,” where he profiles individuals on what motivates them and their stories in minute clips. The series has allowed him to become a finalist in the MegaCities ShortDocs competition and travel to Paris to view his work screened in front of an international audience. He produces his own content for his growing audience, on a professional and personal level.
HOSTS:
KATE HILL CANTRILL:
Kate Hill Cantrill is the author of the short story collection, Walk Back From Monkey School, published from Press 53. She has been awarded fellowships from the Michener Center For Writers, The Corporation of Yaddo, The Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and the Jentel Artists Residency. For more than three years she curated the Rabbit Tales Reading and Performance Series in Dumbo, Brooklyn, and prior to that the Utter Reading Series in Austin, Texas.
DENNIS NORRIS:
Dennis Norris II holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. He’s won several awards and fellowships for his short fiction from the Hurston/Wright Foundation, The NYS Summer Writers Institute and the Vermont Studio Center, and was recently named a 2015 Kimbilio Fellow. His short stories either appear, or are forthcoming in Bound Off, and Madcap Review. He is a curriculum coordinator for the Harlem Children’s Zone and a Basic Skills Instructor for Figure Skating in Harlem. He firmly believes that gossip is a writers’ unalienable right, that mimosas should not be limited to brunch, and that the two are not mutually exclusive.