Join the Gender, Women's and Sexualities Studies Department in welcoming notable alumni Hannah Soyer to campus to share excerpts from her latest publication, for when the shapes keep changing, winner of the OutWrite Chapbook Prize 2021.

Hannah Soyer is a queer disabled writer born and living in Iowa. She earned her M.F.A. in Creative Writing at The University of Kansas. She is a freelance writer for the World Institute on Disability. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Cosmopolitan, About Place Journal, Evocations Review, The Rumpus, Entropy, Mikrokosmos Journal, Brain Mill Press, Disability Visibility Project, Rooted in Rights, Sinister Wisdom, and Peach Mag. 

She is the founder of This Body is Worthy, a project aimed at celebrating bodies outside of mainstream societal ideals, and Words of Reclamation, a space for disabled writers. She was a featured participant in 2019 SXSW, and at the Paper Plains Literary Festival.

Please join us by logging into zoom at 2:30. The event will be close-captioned.