Rising: On Thriving and Surviving Through The Art of Writing (Theater 2)
Writers discuss their current works and how writing serves them as a healing/nurturing art.
David Church is the author of the award-winning adventure novels, Thomas Edison and the Purgatory Equation and Thomas Edison and the Lazarus Vessel, the first two installments in his 'Edison Trilogy.' He authored the environmental children's book, Larue and the Brown Sky (illustrations by Toby Bluth), co-wrote the cult-musical, Judy's Scary Little Christmas (with Jim Webber and Joe Patrick Ward), and has developed films for United Artists, NBC and CBS. A graduate of Emerson College, David is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the Writers Guild of America West.
Noel Alumit is a multidisciplinary artist who wrote the bestselling novel Talking to the Moon and the award-winning Letters to Montgomery Clift. He won the Stonewall Book Award from the American Library Association and the James Duggins Mid-Career Prize. Noel has a Master of Divinity in Buddhist Chaplaincy and is currently an Associate Editor at the Buddhist magazine Lion’s Roar. Noel worked in the AIDS field for over 20 years.
Ruth Madievsky is the author of a novel, All-Night Pharmacy (Catapult, July 2023), and a poetry collection, Emergency Brake (Tavern Books, 2016). Her work appears in The Atlantic, Harper's Bazaar, The Los Angeles Times, GQ, Guernica, and elsewhere. Originally from Moldova, she lives in Los Angeles, where she works as an HIV and primary care clinical pharmacist.
Elías Miguel Muñoz is proud to have contributed to forging the Latinx literary canon. He has published seven novels and two poetry collections that explore his Cuban immigrant roots and themes of exile, sexuality, and friendship. Muñoz’s critically acclaimed books include En estas tierras / In This Land (1989), The Greatest Performance (1991), Brand New Memory (1998), Vida mía (2006), and Diary of Fire (2016). His theatrical work has been produced off-Broadway, and his writing has appeared in numerous anthologies: Best Gay Stories 2012 (2012), Ambientes: New Queer Latino Writing (2011), The Scribner Writers Series: Latino and Latina Writers (2004), Herencia: The Anthology of Hispanic Literature of the United States (2002), The Encyclopedia of American Literature (1999), and W.W. Norton’s New Worlds of Literature (1994) among others.
Muñoz envisions Encore! Encore! as his first novel in a series featuring the histories and cultures of Hispanic Caribbean countries. He is presently developing a science-fiction project that delves into three pivotal time periods of the Caribbean region. Muñoz resides in California.
Steven Rowley is the New York Times bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus, a Washington Post Notable Book of 2016, The Editor, named by NPR as one of the Best Books of 2019, The Guncle, winner of The 22nd Thurber Prize for American Humor, and The Celebrants, a Today Show Read With Jenna Book Club pick. His fiction has been published in twenty languages. All of his novels are in development for feature film or television adaptation.
Wendy L. Silva (she/they) is a queer, Latinx poet from Santa Maria, California and the proud daughter of Mexican immigrants. She did her undergraduate studies in creative writing at UC Riverside and received her MFA in poetry from the University of Idaho. In 2010, she won the Judy Kronenfeld Award in poetry, and in 2013 she received the Academy of American Poet’s Prize. She currently teaches composition, creative writing, and Latinx Literature of the U.S. at Riverside City College and enjoys reading comics, camping, and swimming in hot springs. Her most recent work can be found in The Packinghouse Review, the Acentos Review, and Muse.
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