Sitting in a circle of chairs and couches surrounding a hodgepodge of rugs, a kind hopeful anxiety permeated the space...
Author Ames Hawkins
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Ames Hawkins, an Associate Professor at Columbia College Chicago, is a transgenre writer and art activist whose most recent publications appear in Interdisciplinary Humanities, Polari, Water~Stone Review, and Resilience: Stories, Poems, Essays, Words for GLBT Teens. She is curator and co-editor of 25 for 25: An Anthology of Works by 25 Outstanding Contemporary LGTB Authors and Those They Inspired. Her essay, “Optickal Allusion,” was selected by Robert Atwan as a notable essay of 2011.
