Mutant, Monster, Misfit, Myself: Writing the Disabled/Chronically Ill Body. Sponsored by AWP

Jeannine Hall Gailey

Jeannine Hall Gailey

Jeannine Hall Gailey is a writer with multiple sclerosis who served as the second poet laureate of Redmond, Washington. She's the author of six books of poetry, including Field Guide to the End of the World, winner of the Moon City Book Prize, and the upcoming Flare, Corona from BOA Editions. She has a BS in Biology and a MA in English from the University of Cincinnati and an MFA from Pacific University. Her work appeared in The American Poetry ReviewPloughshares, and Poetry. Her website is www.webbish6.com. Twitter and Instagram: @webbish6.




Rosebud Ben-Oni

Rosebud Ben-Oni

Rosebud Ben-Oni won the 2019 Alice James Award for If This Is the Age We End Discovery and is the author of turn around, BRXGHT XYXS. She received fellowships from New York Foundation for the Arts and CantoMundo; her work has been commissioned by the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York City.




Sandra Beasley

Sandra Beasley

Sandra Beasley is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Made to Explode, and Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life, a disability memoir. She edited Vinegar and Char: Verse from the Southern Foodways Alliance. She lives in Washington, D.C.





Paul Guest

Paul Guest

Paul Guest is the author of four collections of poetry and a memoir. His work has appeared in Poetry, Paris Review, New England Review, and numerous other publications. A Guggenheim Fellow and Whiting Award winner, he lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.





Jennifer Givhan

Jennifer Givhan

Jennifer Givhan is a Mexican-American poet, NEA fellowship recipient, and author of Landscape with Headless Mama (2015 Pleiades Editors’ Prize), Protection Spell (2016 Miller Williams Poetry Prize Series, U of Arkansas Press), and Girl with Death Mask (2017 Blue Light Books Prize, Indiana U Press).