Intended Audience
Thursday, October 24, 2019: DPC, 8:15 p.m.: Bryna Cofrin-Shaw
Please join us for a reading of recent work by Bryna Cofrin-Shaw! Co-sponsored with Environmental Studies.
Bryna Cofrin-Shaw is a fiction and environmental writer from Brooklyn, New York, where she is the recipient of a 2019 Center for Fiction Emerging Writers Fellowship. Her work has appeared in the Colorado Review, American Literary Review, Epiphany, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the 2019 Nelligan Prize for short fiction, and has received fellowships and residencies from the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Good Hart, and VCCA. Her fiction is influenced by her work as an environmental activist and her research on climate, development, and gender within the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. She is currently at work on a novel that explores queer family-building and intimate politics in the age of ecological crisis.