Chavisa Woods

Brooklyn-based writer Chavisa Woods is the author of “The Albino Album” (Seven Stories Press, 2013) and “Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind” (Fly by Night Press, 2009). Woods was the recipient of the 2014 Cobalt Prize for fiction and was a finalist in 2009 and 2014 for the Lambda Literary Award for fiction. Woods has appeared as a featured author at such notable venues as the Whitney Museum of American Art, City Lights Bookstore, Town Hall Seattle, the Brecht Forum, the Cervantes Institute and St. Mark’s Poetry Project. Her most recent collection, “Things to Do When You’re Goth in the Country,” received a starred review from Publishers Weekly calling it “tight, intelligent and important, and sure to secure Woods a seat on the pantheon of critical 21st-century voices.”