AWP: Chris Kraus, Sophia Shalmiyev & Veronica Gonzalez Peña

Three writers will read whatever they feel like and talk about all the tough stuff and blow your house down. Wolf On!

Chris Kraus is the author of four novels and three books of art and cultural criticism. Her first novel, I Love Dick, was adapted for television. In 2017, she published the first full length biography of Kathy Acker, After Kathy Acker: A Literary Biography. Her work has been widely translated. She is a co-editor of Semiotext(e) and lives in Los Angeles.

Sophia Shalmiyev emigrated from Leningrad to America in 1990. She is a feminist writer and painter living in Portland, OR with her two children. Mother Winter (S&S, 2019) is her first book.

Veronica Gonzalez Peña is a writer and filmmaker. In 2006 she founded rockypoint Press, a series of artist/writer collaborative prints, books, and films. Her first novel, twin time: or how death befell me, was published by semiotext(e) and was awarded the 2008 Aztlan Literary Prize. Lynne Tillman calls her second novel, The Sad Passions (semiotext(e), 2013), “honest and riveting,” and Francisco Goldman hailed it “a beautiful and moving choral tale of isolation, love, damage, and intimate struggles.” Veronica’s book/pamphlet, So Far From God, on the Mexican Drug War was included as part of the semiotext(e) exhibition in the 2014 Whitney Biennial. Her latest film is Pat Steir: Artist—an intimate and beautiful film about a truly groundbreaking woman artist.