Jack Straw SoundPages

2016 Jack Straw Writer Casandra Lopez has worked in several literary forms, including poetry, fiction, and essays. Her project during her Jack Straw fellowship was a hybrid work of creative non-fiction, crossing and blending genres to explore the grief and loss that followed her brother’s murder. She talks to program curator Karen Finneyfrock about making the transition from fiction to poetry, art as activism, and writing about grief.

Casandra is a Chicana, Cahuilla, Tongva and Luiseno writer who currently lives in Seattle. She has an MFA from the University of New Mexico and has been selected for residencies with the Santa Fe Art Institute, School of Advanced Research and Hedgebrook. Her poetry chapbook Where Bullet Breaks was published by the Sequoyah National Research Center.  She is a CantoMundo, Jack Straw fellow and a founding editor of As/Us: A Space for Women of the World.

SoundPages was produced by Jack Straw Cultural Center as part of the Jack Straw Writers Program. All of the writers heard in this series are published in the Jack Straw Writers Anthology, and featured online at www.jackstraw.org.

Music by Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble, produced as part of the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.

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