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词条 Aisha Sabatini Sloan
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  1. Professional life

  2. Bibliography

      Books    Essays  

  3. References

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Aisha Sabatini Sloan is an American writer who was born and raised in Los Angeles. Her writing about race and current events is often coupled with analysis of art, film, and pop culture.[1] She studied English Literature at Carleton College and went on to earn an MA in Cultural Studies and Studio Art from the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at NYU and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Arizona.[2] Her essay collection, [https://www.worldcat.org/title/fluency-of-light-coming-of-age-in-a-theater-of-black-and-white/oclc/816564662&referer=brief_results The Fluency of Light: Coming of Age in a Theater of Black and White] was published by the University of Iowa Press in 2013. Her most recent essay collection, [https://www.worldcat.org/title/dreaming-of-ramadi-in-detroit-essays/oclc/1014023623&referer=brief_results Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit], was chosen by Maggie Nelson as the winner of the 1913 Open Prose Contest and published in 2017[3].

Professional life

Sabatini Sloan has written several reviews, essays, and books about the race and various current events. She won the 1913 Open Prose Contest in 2016 for her most recent book, Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit (2017).[4] For this same book, she worked with publicist Kima Jones after launched a successful Indiegogo campaign.[5] She is also a Pushcart Prize nominee as a finalist for Write-a-House in 2014 and the Disquiet Literary Prize in 2015. Her work has been featured in Best American Nonrequired Reading and Best American Essays.[6] She has taught at the University of Arizona, Carleton College,[7] the University of Michigan's New England Literature Program, and elsewhere. Presently, she works and teaches at the University of Arizona Poetry Center.[8]

With Karl Ove Knausgaard, and Wayne Koestenbaum,[9] Sabatini Sloan delivered a keynote address at the NonfictioNOW conference in Reykjavik, Iceland, in June 2017.[10]

About her most recent book, essayist and cultural critic Kiese Laymon wrote, "Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit is an otherworldly meditation on the elasticity of memory, the liveliness of blackness and possibilities of the essay. Aisha Sabatini Sloan manages to produce a collection of essays that are at once innovative, inspiring, sobering, and absolutely terrifying while daring every other essayist in the country to catch up." [11]

Bibliography

Books

  • Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit (10/23/17)
  • The Fluency of Light (2013)

Essays

  • "On Basquiat, the Black Body, and a Strange Sensation in my Neck"
  • "Caldera"
  • "D is for the Dance of the Hours"
  • "How to Prepare to See the Royall Family Portrait"
  • "Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit"

References

1. ^{{Cite news|url=https://theundefeated.com/features/author-aisha-sabatini-sloan-new-book-detroit-muhammad-ali/|title=Author Aisha Sabatini Sloan on the power of art, crowdsourcing — and meeting Muhammad Ali|last=Wilkins|first=Tierra R.|date=2017-10-25|work=The Undefeated|access-date=2017-11-28|language=en-US}}
2. ^{{Cite web|url=http://english.arizona.edu/|title=Home {{!}} Department of English|website=english.arizona.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-11-28}}
3. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.journal1913.org/publications/dreaming-of-ramadi-in-detroit/|title=» Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit|language=en|access-date=2019-03-20}}
4. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.journal1913.org/publications/dreaming-of-ramadi-in-detroit/|title=» Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit|language=en|access-date=2018-03-23}}
5. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/dreaming-of-ramadi-in-detroit-diversity-literature#/|title=Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit|website=Indiegogo|access-date=2017-11-28}}
6. ^{{Cite web|url=https://aishasloan.com/|title=aisha sabatini sloan|website=aisha sabatini sloan|language=en-US|access-date=2017-11-28}}
7. ^{{Cite web|url=http://blogs.carleton.edu/englishdepartment/2014/05/26/a-conversation-with-aisha-sabatini-sloan/|title=The Second Laird Miscellany {{!}} A Conversation with Aisha Sabatini Sloan|website=blogs.carleton.edu|language=en-US|access-date=2017-11-28}}
8. ^{{Cite news|url=https://mfadayjob.com/2017/01/09/get-an-mfa-or-dont-but-please-get-to-work-an-interview-with-aisha-sabatini-sloan/|title="Get an MFA or don’t, but please get to work": An Interview with Aisha Sabatini Sloan|date=2017-01-09|access-date=2017-11-28|language=en-US}}
9. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.nonfictionow.org/past-conferences/|website=NonfictioNOW|language=en-US|access-date=2018-03-03}}
10. ^{{Cite web|url=https://lithub.com/the-dangerous-lure-of-writing-for-white-readers-in-an-mfa/|title=The Dangerous Lure of Writing for White Readers in an MFA|website=LitHub|access-date=2018-03-03}}
11. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.journal1913.org/publications/dreaming-of-ramadi-in-detroit/|title=Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit|website=journal1913.org}}
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