Season 2, Episode 7: Art Is Us, A Conversation with Lisa D. Chavéz

In this episode, Sam and Melanie talk with August featured writer, Lisa D. Chavéz , about poetry, creative nonfiction, writing through trauma, MFA programs, and more!

CW: sexual assault, trauma, and PTSD

Lisa D. Chavéz has published two books of poetry, Destruction Bay and In An Angry Season, and had poems anthologized in Floricanto Si!: U.S. Latina Poets, Camino del Sol:  Fifteen Years of Latina and Latino Writing, and elsewhere.  Her essays have appeared in Arts and Letters, The Fourth Genre and other magazines, and in anthologies including The Other Latin@: Writing Against a Singular Identity, and An Angle of Vision: Women Writers on their Poor and Working Class Roots.  She grew up in Alaska, and now lives in the mountains of New Mexico with a pack of Japanese dogs. She is currently the Director of Creative Writing program at the University of New Mexico.