I received a number of books as holiday gifts. They encompass many of my usual interests: queerness, Latinidad, poetry (especially haiku), tarot, and memoir. I’m glad I still have a month of break left in which to read them!
Christmas, Jillian. The Gospel of Breaking. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2020.
Epstein, Robert. Pandemic Haiku: Living Through COVID-19. West Union, WV: Middle Island Press, 2020.
Foster, Tonya M. A Swarm of Bees in High Court. Brooklyn: Belladonna*, 2015.
García, Elizabeth. Healing Memories: Puerto Rican Women’s Literature in the United States. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018.
Greer, Mary K. Mary K. Greer’s 21 Ways to Read a Tarot Card. Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 2006.
Machado, Carmen Maria. The Low, Low Woods. Illustrated by Dani and Tamra Bonvillain. Burbank, CA: DC Comics, 2020.
Nezhukumatathil, Aimee. World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2020.
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I grew up in New York City and lived in Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Goshen, Indiana; DeKalb, Illinois; and Salt Lake City, Utah before coming to Utica, New York. My mother’s family is Swiss-German Mennonite (i.e., it’s an ethnicity, not necessarily a theological persuasion) and my father’s family is Puerto Rican. I have a Ph.D. in English and currently teach at Utica College. I have also taught at Northern Illinois University and Westminster College in Salt Lake City. My teaching and scholarship are motivated by a passion for social justice, which is why my research focuses on the literature of oppressed groups, especially LGBT persons and people of color. While I primarily read and write about fiction, I am also a devoted reader of poetry because, as William Carlos Williams writes, “It is difficult / to get the news from poems / yet [people] die miserably every day / for lack / of what is found there.” Thinkers who influence me include Marina Abramovic, Kathy Acker, Di Brandt, Ana Castillo, Samuel R. Delany, Percival Everett, Essex Hemphill, Jane Jacobs, Walt Whitman, and the New York School of poets. I am also fond of queer Mennonite writers such as Stephen Beachy, Jan Guenther Braun, Lynnette Dueck/D’anna, and Casey Plett. In my free time I’m either reading, writing the occasional poem, playing board games (especially Scrabble, backgammon, and chess), watching sports (Let’s Go, Mets!), or cooking (curries, stews, roasts…).
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