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For whom do we become malleable? When do we break? When do we bend? These are some of the questions being asked and explored by 12 writers who were invited to respond, react to, be in conversation with drawings from Laylah Ali's Studies series.
They wrote back in micro-fictions, creative nonfiction, poems, and pieces that ignore boundaries of genre.
Bending features written work by Victoria Chang, Caro De Robertis, Julian Delgado Lopera, Jaquira Díaz, Patricia Engel, Courtney Faye Taylor, Nimmi Gowrinathan, Diana Khoi Nguyen, Chinelo Okparanta, Shana L. Redmond, Lilliam Rivera, and Alejandro Varela.
Angie Cruz
Angie Cruz is the author of the novels How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water, Soledad, Let It Rain Coffee, and Dominicana, which was shortlisted for the Women's Prize and a Good Morning America Book Club pick. She is founder and editor in chief of Aster(ix), a literary and arts journal, and is an associate professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh.
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