Keynote Speakers
Dr. Octavio Quintanilla
San Antonio Poet Laureate (2018-2020)
Poet, Author, Artist
Professor at Our Lady of the Lake University
Poet, Author, Artist
Professor at Our Lady of the Lake University
November 9, 2024
Website: octavioquintanilla.com
IG: @writeroctavioquintanilla Twitter: @OctQuintanilla |
Octavio Quintanilla is the author of the poetry collection, If I Go Missing (Slough Press, 2014) and served as the 2018-2020 Poet Laureate of San Antonio, TX. His poetry, fiction, translations, and photography have appeared, or are forthcoming, in journals such as Salamander, RHINO, Alaska Quarterly Review, Pilgrimage, Green Mountains Review, Southwestern American Literature, The Texas Observer, Existere: A Journal of Art & Literature, and elsewhere. His Frontextos (visual poems) have been published in Poetry Northwest, Gold Wake Live, Newfound, Chachalaca Review, Chair Poetry Evenings, Red Wedge, The Museum of Americana, About Place Journal, The American Journal of Poetry, The Windward Review, Tapestry, Twisted Vine Literary Arts Journal, & The Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas.
Octavio’s visual work has been exhibited at the Southwest School of Art, Presa House Gallery, Equinox Gallery, UTRGV-Brownsville, the Weslaco Museum, Aanna Reyes Gallery in San Antonio, TX, Our Lady of the Lake University, AllState Almaguer art space in Mission, El Centro Cultural Hispano de San Marcos, The Walker’s Gallery in San Marcos, TX, and in the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center / Black Box Theater in Austin, TX. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Texas and is the regional editor for Texas Books in Review and poetry editor for The Journal of Latina Critical Feminism & for Voices de la Luna: A Quarterly Literature & Arts Magazine. Octavio teaches Literature and Creative Writing in the M.A./M.F.A. program at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, Texas. |
féi hernandez
poet/prosist, cultural worker,
director/filmmaker, designer/illustrator
director/filmmaker, designer/illustrator
November 9, 2024
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féi hernandez (b.1993, Chihuahua, Mexico) is a trans, formerly undocumented immigrant. She is a 2023 Lambda Literary fellow and 2022 Tin House Scholar. féi is the author of HOOD CRIATURA (Sundress Publications, 2020) and the forthcoming (UN)DOCU MENTE (Noemi Press, 2025). féi’s poetry/ prose is published in Los Angeles Review of Books, Poetry, Academy of American Poets, Hayden Ferry’s Review, TransLash Media and forthcoming, Split This Rock and anthology Here to Stay in Fall 2024. féi is descendent of the Pi’ma, Rarámuri, and Cora peoples. For more of her projects and services visit: feihernandez.com
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