Storytellers for HtBaF: Lost and Found
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STORYTELLERS:
STACIE EVANS:
Stacie Evans lives in Brooklyn, in a real “neighborhood neighborhood” where people ring the bell to borrow sugar or eggs and then leave fresh-baked cookies or a bottle of fancy olive oil or wine as a thank you. She has a lot of stories, and many of them are about her mother. She is a three-time alum of VONA Voices, the only multi-genre workshop for writers of color, and a frequent reader at Big Words, Etc. Stacie writes essays, stories, and poems. She is also writing and drawing a comic called Adventures in Racism. She is known for telling a LOT of stories and for being an excellent continuous talker – able to pick up a story exactly where she left off, no matter how many interruptions. But at least she now allows interruptions. As a toddler, she would shut down anyone who stepped into her story, shouting: “Stacie talking to you now!” Well … and here we are, and Stacie’s going to talk to you now.
PATRICK CARTER:
Patrick Carter is the Associate Director of Special Events at Friends of the High Line, where he oversees the revenue and production of fundraising events on the acclaimed elevated park. He has formerly worked in fundraising at notable cultural institutions including the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, and the Aspen Music Festival and School. An avid reader, thinker, and aspiring socialite, Patrick currently resides in Astoria in what can only be described as the gayest apartment on the block.
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.