Chavisa Woods

Chavisa Woods is a New York City-based author, and winner of the Shirley Jackson Award.

Background

Woods was born and raised in a rural farm town, Sandoval Illinois, and lived from 2000 to 2003 in St. Louis, Missouri, where she was a resident of the anarchist collective C.A.M.P. (Community Arts and Media Project[1]). She moved in 2003 to New York City, where she resided and worked for A Gathering of the Tribes, art gallery-salon and small press, owned and operated by novelist and professor Steve Cannon.

Work

Woods is the author of four books: "100 Times (A Memoir of Sexism)" (2019), "Things To Do When You're Goth in the Country" (2017), The Albino Album (2013), and "Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind."

Her work has received praise from The New York Times,[2] Publisher's Weekly, The Seattle Review of Books and many other media outlets.

Woods has presented lectures and conducted and workshops on short fiction and poetry at a number of academic institutions, including: New York University (NYU), Mount Holyoke College, Penn State, Sarah Lawrence College, Bard College, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn Tech, Hugo and the New School. She currently leads select writing workshops throughout the year through Hugo House and Catapult.

Awards

Woods received the Shirley Jackson Award in 2018, for a story in her collection, Things To Do When You're Goth in the Country.

Woods was the recipient of the Kathy Acker Award in writing, 2018, and the Shirley Jackson Award.

Woods was awarded the Cobalt Fiction Prize in 2013 for her short work of poetic prose entitled "Things to do when you're Goth in the Country".[3]

Woods was the 2008 recipient of the Jerome Foundation Travel Grant for Literature.

Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind was a finalist for the 21st Lambda Literary Award for Debut Fiction.[4]

Other publications

Woods has published prose and poetry in a number of magazines, including:

  • Lit Hub
  • Electric Lit
  • Tin House Magazine
  • Sensitive Skin 2017 [5]
  • Cleaver Magazine 2013
  • Adanna 2013
  • Union Station Magazine 2011 [6]
  • The Evergreen Review 2011 [7]
  • Danse Macabre- Stonewall Issue, 2009 [8]
  • Poetz.com Green Issue, 2008
  • Blue Fog Journal, 2007
  • Cake Poetry, 2007
  • Tribes Magazine, 2007
  • The Red Doll (chapbook) – 2006
  • Matador, 2006
  • The BARD Gay and Lesbian Poetry Review, 2006
  • Chronogram, 2006
  • Conversations with the Other Woman (chapbook), 2006
  • Where We Live, 2005,
  • Calling the Red, Chapbook, 2005
  • Xanadou, 2004
  • Wildflowers, 2004
  • In The Fray, 2004

Fiction
  • Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country Short Fiction Collection, Seven Stories Press, 2017
  • "What's Happening on the News?" Short Fiction Quaint Magazine, 2016
  • "The Albino Album" Seven Stories Press, 2013
  • How to Stop Smoking.... Usama" Sensitive Skin Magazine 2012
  • "A New Mowhawk" Jadalliya 2012
  • Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind, Fly By Night Press, 2008[9]
  • "The Smallest Actions",[10] The Fiction Circus, 2008
  • "The Bell Tower", Prima Materia, 2006
  • Short story in Fuzion 1003, 2004

Nonfiction
  • Autonomedia, "Worst Book I Ever Read" (essay), 2008
  • Sotheby’s Catalogue, May 2008
  • Aganzia Catalogue (art review), 2006
  • A Gathering of the Tribes' Webmag, "Borat Receives Memo"
  • 100 Times: A Memoir of Sexism, 2019

Documentaries
  • Rhapsodists, 2004

Book reviews
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gollark: * POOR
gollark: ZINC! FINALLY! A LOT OF PURE ZINC ORE!
gollark: Amazingly, it's basically useless.

References
  1. "C. A. M. P. - The Community, Arts, & Movement Project exists to empower creative expression, and celebrate interconnection". stlcamp.org. Retrieved January 15, 2019.
  2. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/05/books/review/new-this-week.html
  3. "2013 Cobalt Writing Prizes". Cobalt. December 4, 2013. Archived from the original on August 26, 2016. Retrieved June 6, 2017.
  4. Cerna, Antonio Gonzalez (February 18, 2010). "21st Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary. Retrieved July 6, 2017.
  5. "Seven Gifts - Chavisa Woods - Writing". sensitiveskinmagazine.com. April 19, 2017. Retrieved January 15, 2019.
  6. "Fit mit Sport – unionstationmag.com". unionstationmag.com. Retrieved January 15, 2019.
  7. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 27, 2011. Retrieved August 24, 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. "The Stonewall Gang". October 9, 2009. Archived from the original on October 9, 2009. Retrieved January 15, 2019.
  9. Go Magazine review
  10. "the fiction circus". fictioncircus.com. Retrieved January 15, 2019.
  11. "Fiction Book Review: Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country by Chavisa Woods. Seven Stories, $23.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-60980-745-0". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved January 15, 2019.
  12. Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country, by Chavisa Woods - Booklist Online. Retrieved January 15, 2019 – via www.booklistonline.com.
  13. "Reviews: Chavisa Woods's Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind". December 27, 2008. Archived from the original on December 27, 2008. Retrieved January 15, 2019.
  14. "Prose Roundup". The Brooklyn Rail. December 14, 2007. Retrieved January 15, 2019.
  15. Keckler, Joseph (October 10, 2010). "Book: Love Does Not Make Me Gentle Or Kind". GO Magazine. Retrieved January 15, 2019.
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