How to Build a Fire: Concealed and Revealed | Storytellers
STORYTELLERS:
MIGUEL ÁNGEL ÁNGELES:
Miguel Ángel Ángeles is a queer Xican@ migrant from a small town in rural California. He has been transplanted in New York since 2005. The youngest child of his family, he has been fascinated by the word from a young age. He currently works teaching English to adult immigrants and has led English/Spanish bilingual writing workshop for the New York Writers’ Coalition. His short stories have been published in The Best of Panic Anthology and in From Macho to Mariposa: New Gay Latino Fiction. His poetry has been published in Nahualliandoing Dos/An Anthology of Poetry in Nahuatl, Español and Englush. He has shared his fiction at Voices of Our Nations Arts (VONA) work shops facilitated by Elmaz Abinader and Junot Díaz as well as a Cave Canem poetry work shop facilitated by Eduardo Corral.
ISABELLE HOLMES:
Isabelle Holmes is a former dancer with a penchant for numbers and accounting. As an Arts Manager she appreciates the satisfying feeling of following rules and categorizing things by day, yet her creative spirit compels her to break rules by night and in actuality she prefers things that don’t fit in boxes. You can often find her knitting with a book on tape in her ear, contra dancing, or biking around NYC, and can probably guarantee that she is pretty nervous and excited right now as she prepares to tell you her story.
ROSE CRICHTON:
Rose Crichton is a media professional with over a 15 years of experience working in both community and corporate media. She is currently Associate Director of Partnerships with the Brooklyn based arts and media non-profit organization, BRIC. She’s also worked in publicity for Interscope Records and marketing for Emmis Communications–home of top rated HOT 97 radio station, where she worked on multi-million dollar marketing campaigns and concert events with artists such as Alicia Keys, 50 Cent, Patti Labelle and more. In addition, she runs her own grassroots consulting company–RoCri Consulting Group. She is a born and raised Brooklynite and loves all things geeky. This will be her first time storytelling in front of folks other than her cats–so go easy on her!
ANNA KRIEGER:
Anna Krieger works for an education nonprofit, where she hires Teaching Fellows to serve in high-need public middle schools around the New York area. She studied Religion at Haverford College, where she explored the intersection between social justice and religion. Post-undergrad, Anna attended the University of Pennsylvania, where she got her Master’s in Social Work. Outside of her work, Anna loves performing, having grown up an avid performer in plays, musicals, and improv. She also enjoys journaling regularly, attempting to learn pop songs on the guitar, and is on a constant quest to find good Gluten Free pizza.
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.