Speakers highlight: Wholehearted Writers Week day 3!

Hi, writers!

We’re so excited to share more details about our speakers related to each conference theme!

On day 3, our featured theme will be Together: Sharing with and learning from other writers in community. Get to know our speakers who will be sharing about this topic:

Eugenia Triantafyllou (she/her) is a Greek author and artist with a flair for dark things. Her work has won the Shirley Jackson Award and has been nominated for the British Fantasy, Hugo, Ignyte, Locus, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards. She is a graduate of Clarion West Writers Workshop. You can find her stories in Reactor.com, Uncanny, Strange Horizons, Apex, and other venues. She currently lives in Athens with a boy and a dog. Literary representation: Jessica Friedman, Sterling Lord Literistic.

She’ll be talking, in part, about building a social media presence in a way that best suits you, your personality, and your work. Find her techniques on Twitter @foxesandroses, Bsky, and Mastodon.

Andrea Jenkins is a nationally and internationally recognized writer and artist, a 2011 Bush Fellow to advance the work of transgender inclusion, and the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships. The author of The T is Not Silent: New and Selected Poems, she holds an MFA in creative writing from Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, as well as a master’s degree in community development from Southern New Hampshire University. From 2015 to 2018 she served as the curator of the Transgender Oral History Project at the University of Minnesota's Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies. In 2017 she became the first openly transgender Black woman to be elected to public office in the US. In her tenure at the Minneapolis City Council, she served as both Council Vice President and Council President.

Read an interview with Andrea about her work as the first Oral Historian for the Transgender Oral History Project here.

Andrea has contributed essays to the anthologies Blues Vision: African American Writing from Minnesota (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2016), A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2016), and Queer Voices: Poetry, Prose, and Pride (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2019). Queer Voices includes an essay by another of our speakers, Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew!

Until next time,

Wholehearted Writers Team