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Join the Workshop in Trans Studies on the evening of October 9th at 5:00pm for a poetry reading featuring Samuel Ace and Michael M. Weinstein followed by conversation and a reception (with free light snacks and drinks available). We look forward to seeing you there! Undergraduates, grad students, faculty, and community members are all welcome to join. 

Samuel Ace is a trans/genderqueer writer and sound artist. He is the author most recently of I want to start by saying (Cleveland State University Poetry Center), Our Weather Our Sea (Black Radish), Meet Me There: Normal Sex & Home in three days. Don’t wash. (Belladonna* Germinal Texts), and Stealth with poet Maureen Seaton (Chax). Chapbooks include: What started / this mess (above/ground press); Our Weather Our Sea (Belladonna Chaplet #209); Madame Curie’s Notebook (with Maureen Seaton, Artefakta); Triple # 11: The Road to the Multiverse; and Triple #18: A minor history / of secret knowledge (with Maureen Seaton, Ravenna Press). Ace is the recipient of the Astraea Lesbian Writer Award and the Firecracker Alternative Book Award in Poetry, as well as a repeat finalist for both the Lambda Literary Award and the National Poetry Series. Recent work can be found in Personal Best: Makers on Their Poems that Matter Most, Essential Queer Voices of U.S. Poetry, The Georgia Review, Fence, BathHouse, ex-Puritan, The Texas Review, Poetry, We Want it All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetry, Best American Experimental Poetry, and many other journals and anthologies. Forthcoming in 2025 is Portals, co-authored with the late poet Maureen Seaton (Ravenna Press).

Michael M. Weinstein is a trans/crip poet, scholar, essayist, and photographer. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Boston Review, The Kenyon Review, The Iowa Review, Conjunctions, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Poets.org, and elsewhere. A former MFA candidate and Zell Postgraduate Fellow at the University of Michigan, he holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from Harvard and formerly served as a Fulbright scholar in Siberia. He is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Earlham College.