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Join CBAW and Cynthia Dewi Oka for a writing workshop to explore how our stories of ourselves can function as windows that open toward the Other(s) through the device of point of view and techniques like erasure, dislocation, fragmentation, dialogue, and lyric expansion.
Cynthia Dewi Oka is the author of Salvage: Poems (Northwestern University Press) and Nomad of Salt and Hard Water (Thread Makes Blanket). Recent work appears in Tupelo Quarterly, The Undefeated, Zocalo Public Square, PRISM International, and Scoundrel Time. Originally from Bali, Indonesia, she’s currently based in the Greater Philadelphia Area and teaches creative writing at Bryn Mawr College.
Seema Reza is a poet and essayist and the author of two books: A Constellation of Half-Lives and When the World Breaks Open. She holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Writing and Community Building from Goddard College. In 2010 Seema began working with service members, veterans, and their families at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and has since developed a unique multi-hospital arts program that encourages the use of the arts as a tool for narration, self-care and socialization. In 2015, the USO of Metropolitan Washington-Baltimore awarded Seema the Col John Gioia Patriot Award for her work with service members in military hospitals. Seema is a 2019 George W. Bush Institute Stand-To Veteran Leadership Scholar.