Storytellers for How to Build a Fire: The Art of Losing

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STORYTELLERS:

GLENDALIZ CAMACHO:
Glendaliz Camacho is a Pushcart Prize nominee, 2015 Write A House Finalist, and currently a recipient of a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace residency. She has been an artist in residence at Jentel, Caldera, Kimmel Harding Nelson, and Hedgebrook. Glendaliz is a proud VONA Voices alum. Her work appears in The Female Complaint (Shade Mountain Press), Soulmate 101 and Other Essays on Love and Sex (Full Grown People) and All About Skin: Short Fiction by Women of Color (University of Wisconsin Press), as well as The Butter, Saraba Magazine, and Kweli Journal, among others. She is currently working on a short story collection and novel.

STEPHANIE RUDOLPH:
Stephanie is a housing attorney at the Community Development Project of the Urban Justice Center where she represents tenants in group actions against harassing and negligent landlords. Stephanie earned her B.A. from Haverford College in 2006 and her J.D. from Stanford Law School in 2011. To forget about slumlords, in her spare time, Stephanie enjoys creative writing and distance running.

MICHAEL CARROLL:
Michael Carroll is a Cable Access TV Equipment Room Guy who lives in Brooklyn, NY. Many of the films he’s seen have been nominated for Academy Awards and a few have even won the prestigious Palme d’Ore at the Cannes Film Festival. Michael is proud to announce that various books on his bookshelf have received awards from The National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize in History and Fiction. Mr. Carroll is a former subscriber to both the New York Times and the New Yorker magazine. Michael makes a pretty ok French Onion Soup.

LIANA SEGAN:
Liana Segan is a former dancer, aspired writer/story-teller, and current student. She was born and raised in Brooklyn New York. As a dancer, she was afforded opportunities to speak on stage, adding a layer to the performative art she was excited by. Having participated in many a National Novel Writing Month campaigns, submitted works to online publications as well as University Magazines, she looks forward to being published again soon. Her favorite authors include Junot Diaz, Toni Morrison, and David Foster Wallace.

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.