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Join us in welcoming Julie Rae Powers to the Unicorn Stage to celebrate the release of their new book of photography, Deep Ruts, as well as their photography prints hanging at HQ. Julie Rae will be joined in conversation by Mandy Shunnarah.Julie Rae Powers is from West Virginia and Virginia. They come from a working class family of homemakers, teachers, coal miners, and railroad laborers. Their photographic and written work has focused on family history, coal, Appalachia, and queerness. Additionally, they are the author and editor of a forthcoming collection of Queer Appalachian photographers "Reclamation: Queering Appalachia's Visual History" UPK '24 and a collection of personal essays "To Thine Own Self Be True" UPK '24.
Mandy Shunnarah (they/them) is an Alabama-born Appalachian and Palestinian-American writer who calls Columbus, Ohio, home. Their essays, poetry, and short stories have been published in The New York Times, Electric Literature, The Rumpus, and others. They are the winner of the Porter House Review 2024 Editor’s Prize in Poetry and are supported by the Ohio Arts Council, the Greater Columbus Arts Council, and the Sundress Academy for the Arts. Their first book, Midwest Shreds: Skating Through America’s Heartland, will be released in July 2024 from Belt Publishing. Read more at mandyshunnarah.com.
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