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Friday April 18, 2025 1:30pm - 2:30pm EDT
Join VCU Creative Writing faculty SJ Sindu for a discussion with three transgender poets in recovery—K. Iver, Chase Berggrun, and Samuel Ace—about how their experiences with transgender identity, poetic expression and recovery intersect.
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SJ Sindu

Assistant Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University
SJ Sindu is a Tamil diaspora author of two literary novels (Marriage of a Thousand Lies, which won the Publishing Triangle Edmund White Award; and Blue-Skinned Gods, which was an Indie Next Pick and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award), two hybrid chapbooks (I Once Met You But... Read More →
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Samuel Ace

Writer and Sound Artist
Samuel Ace is a trans/genderqueer writer and sound artist. He is the author most recently of I want to start by saying (Cleveland State University Poetry Center), Our Weather Our Sea (Black Radish), Meet Me There: Normal Sex & Home in three days. Don’t wash. (Belladonna* Germinal... Read More →
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Chase Berggrun

Writer
Chase Berggrun is a trans woman poet and educator. She is the author of R E D (Birds LLC, 2018), and the chapbook Somewhere a seagull (After Hours Editions, 2023). Her poems and essays have appeared in American Poetry Review, Poetry Magazine, Poem-A-Day, The Nation, and elsewhere... Read More →
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K. Iver

Writer
K. Iver (they/them) is a nonbinary trans poet born in Mississippi. Their book Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco won the 2022 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry from Milkweed Editions. Short Film won the Wisconsin Book Award and was shortlisted for the L.A. Times Book Prize... Read More →
Friday April 18, 2025 1:30pm - 2:30pm EDT
Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University 601 W Broad St, Richmond, VA 23220, USA

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