Fire Hydrant Reading Series #10 Ft: Sarah A. Chavez and Miguel M. Morales
Sarah A. Chavez, a mestiza born and raised in the California Central Valley, is the author of the poetry collections, Hands That Break & Scar (Sundress Publications, 2017) and All Day, Talking (dancing girl press, 2014). Her new project, Halfbreed Helene Navigates the Whole received a 2019-2020 Tacoma Artists Initiative Award. Chavez teaches creative writing and Latinx/Chicanx-focused courses at the University of Washington Tacoma, serves as the poetry coordinator for Best of the Net Anthology, and is a proud member of the Macondo Writers Workshop. Recent work can be found or is forthcoming in Xicanx: Mexican American Writers of the 21st Century, Diode, & Hotel Amerika.
Miguel M. Morales grew up in Texas working as a migrant/seasonal farmworker. He is a Lambda Literary Fellow and an alum of VONA/Voices and the Macondo Writers Workshops. Miguel’s work that centers on fatness and queerness appears in From Macho to Mariposa: New Gay Latino Fiction; Hibernation, and Other Poems by Bear Bards; Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands; and The Other F Word: A Celebration of the Fat & Fierce. He is the co-editor of Pulst/Pulso: In Remembrance of Orlando and of Fat & Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives.
