{"id":6175,"date":"2017-04-26T20:24:44","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T00:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=6175"},"modified":"2018-05-20T22:49:06","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T02:49:06","slug":"chavisa-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/chavisa-woods\/","title":{"rendered":"Chavisa Woods"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5637\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-6175-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/chavisawoods.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/chavisawoods.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/chavisawoods.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6176 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/20170320_151712_edited.jpg?resize=300%2C197&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/20170320_151712_edited.jpg?resize=300%2C197&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/20170320_151712_edited.jpg?resize=768%2C504&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/20170320_151712_edited.jpg?resize=1024%2C672&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/20170320_151712_edited.jpg?resize=696%2C457&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/20170320_151712_edited.jpg?resize=741%2C486&amp;ssl=1 741w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/20170320_151712_edited.jpg?resize=1068%2C701&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/20170320_151712_edited.jpg?resize=640%2C420&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/20170320_151712_edited.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/20170320_151712_edited.jpg?w=2088&amp;ssl=1 2088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/chavisawoodsbooks.com\/\">Chavisa Woods<\/a> is the author of three books of fiction: &#8220;Things to Do when You&#8217;re Goth in the Country&#8221; (short fiction, 224 pages) which is forthcoming from Seven Stories Press in May, 2017; \u201cThe Albino Album,\u201d a novel, (550 pages) Seven Stories Press, 2013; and Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind\u201d full-length fiction (Fly by Night Press, 2009). The Second Edition of this book was released by Autonomedia Press under the Unbearables imprint in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Woods was the recipient of the 2013 Cobalt Prize for fiction and was a finalist (second nomination) for the 2013 Lambda Literary Award for fiction.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6177\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Image-with-Booklist-.jpg?resize=560%2C397&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Image-with-Booklist-.jpg?w=560&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Image-with-Booklist-.jpg?resize=300%2C213&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Image-with-Booklist-.jpg?resize=100%2C70&amp;ssl=1 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Woods has appeared as a featured author at such notable venues as The Whitney Museum of American Art, City Lights Bookstore, Town Hall Seattle, The Brecht Forum, The Cervantes Institute, and St. Mark\u2019s Poetry Project. Her writing has appeared in such publications as The Evergreen Review, New York Quarterly, The Brooklyn Rail, Cleaver Magazine, and Jadaliyya. Woods was the recipient of the 2009 Jerome Foundation award for emerging authors, and is currently completing her third work of full-length fiction.<\/p>\n<p>Woods has presented lectures and conducted workshops \u00a0on short fiction and poetry at a number of academic institutions, including: New York University (NYU), Penn State, Sarah Lawrence College, Bard College, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn Tech and the New School.<\/p>\n<p>Her book release party in NYC is on May 21st, 2017. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/271590153270797\/\">Learn more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gmail_quote\">The books she mentioned reading in the interview are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Difficult-Women-Roxane-Gay-ebook\/dp\/B01LFQ3KWM\">Difficult Women<\/a> by Roxane Gay and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Feast-Snakes-Novel-Harry-Crews\/dp\/0684842483\/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1493251763&amp;sr=1-1-catcorr&amp;keywords=a+feast+of+snakes\">A Feast of Snakes<\/a> by Harry Crews.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/chavisawoods.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listChavisa Woods is the author of three books of fiction: &#8220;Things to Do when You&#8217;re Goth in the Country&#8221; (short fiction, 224 pages) which is forthcoming from Seven Stories Press in May, 2017; \u201cThe Albino Album,\u201d a novel, (550 pages) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[67,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-6175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-writers","8":"category-poet","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-us"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Image-with-Booklist-.jpg?fit=560%2C397&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p47FRq-1BB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6179,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6175\/revisions\/6179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}