Kristiania Presents: The Queer Gaze

Please join us for the first public event of Kristiania, an international anarcho-literary collective of politically minded writers. This will be a conversation around the subjects of queerness and subjectivity featuring the exciting authors and thinkers: Samuel R. Delany Ana Božičević Saeed Jones Trace Peterson Moderated by Lonely Christopher More on Kristiania: www.kristiania.org Samuel R. Delany is the author of numerous science fiction books including, Dhalgren and Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand, as well as the best-selling nonfiction study Times Square Red, Times Square Blue and the memoir The Motion of Light In Water. His latest novel is Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders. He lives in New York City and teaches at Temple University. The Lambda Book Report chose Delany as one of the fifty most significant men and women of the past hundred years to change our concept of gayness; he is a recipient of the William Whitehead Memorial Award for a lifetime's contribution to lesbian and gay literature; and, after winning four Nebula Awards and two Hugo awards over the course of his career, The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America named him the 2013 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master. Ana Božičević, born in Croatia in 1977, is the author of Stars of the Night Commute (2009) and Rise in the Fall, Publishers Weekly’s top five in poetry for 2013. She's a two-time Lambda Literary Award for Poetry finalist. She is the recipient of the 40 Under 40: The Future of Feminism award from the Feminist Press, and the PEN American Center/NYSCA grant for translating Snow on Fire by Zvonko Karanović. The anthology of translations The Day Lady Gaga Died: An Anthology of Newer New York Poets she co-edited with Željko Mitić appeared in Serbia in Fall 2011. She teaches and studies poetics at the City University of New York, and has taught at Naropa University, the University of Arizona Poetry Center, the San Francisco State University Poetry Center, Harvard, and elsewhere. With Sophia Le Fraga, she performs and creates multimedia work as not_I. A 2013 Pushcart Prize Winner, Saeed Jones' work has appeared in publications like Guernica, The Rumpus, Hadyden's Ferry Review and Blackbird among others. He is the author of the chapbook When The Only Light Is Fire (Sibling Rivalry Press). This September, his full-length collection Prelude To Bruise will be published by Coffee House Press. Saeed is the recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem and Queer / Art / Mentors. He is the editor of BuzzFeed LGBT. Trace Peterson’s two favorite things are sex and literary criticism. Author of the poetry book Since I Moved In(Chax Press) and numerous chapbooks of poems, she is also Editor / Publisher of EOAGH, co-editor of the new anthology Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books) which is a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award this year, and co-editor of the forthcoming Gil Ott: Collected Writings(Chax Press). From 2009-2012, she curated the TENDENCIES: Poetics & Practice series inspired by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick at CUNY Graduate Center in NYC, where she is currently a Ph.D. Candidate. Lonely Christopher is a poet and filmmaker. He is the author of the poetry collection Death & Disaster Series (Monk Books, 2014) and the short story collection The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse, which was a 2011 selection of Dennis Cooper's Little House on the Bowery imprint of Akashic Books. His plays have been produced in New York City and China. He wrote and directed the feature film MOM (Cavazos Films, 2013) and his stories have been adapted for the screen in Canada and France. He lives in Brooklyn and is the programming director for the Kristiania Collective.