{"id":7136,"date":"2018-02-01T20:50:54","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T01:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=7136"},"modified":"2018-05-20T22:49:11","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T02:49:11","slug":"chavisa-woods-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/chavisa-woods-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Chavisa Woods"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7809\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-7136-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/chavisa3.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/chavisa3.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/chavisa3.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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/chavisawoods\"><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\" \/>Chavisa Woods<\/a> is interviewed here about her writing project, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/notes\/chavisa-woods\/100-things-from-chavisa-woods-metoo-sexismfuckingsucks\/10156102213848313\/\">100 Things<\/a>, which also uses the hashtag #sexismfuckingsucks. She was interviewed previously about her book,\u00a0<em>Things To Do When You&#8217;re Goth in the Countr<\/em>y\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/chavisa-woods\/\">here<\/a>. And a second time about LGBTQ issues, particularly in regard to children, and that interview <a href=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/chavisa-woods-part-2\/\">is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Chavisa Woods is the author of\u00a0three books\u00a0of fiction:\u00a0<strong><em>Things To Do When You&#8217;re Goth in the Countr<\/em>y<\/strong>\u00a0(short fiction, 224 pages) Seven Stories Press in May, 2017;\u00a0<strong><em>The Albino Album<\/em><\/strong>, (novel, 550 pages) Seven Stories Press, 2013; and<strong>\u00a0<em>Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0(<\/em>full-length fiction, 200 pages) 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\u00a02018 Kathy Acker Award in writing, the 2014\u00a0Cobalt Prize\u00a0for fiction and was a finalist for the 2010\u00a0and 2013\u00a0Lambda Literary Award\u00a0for fiction, and\u00a0was the recipient of the 2009 Jerome Foundation award for emerging authors.<\/p>\n<p>Her writing has appeared in such publications\u00a0<strong>as\u00a0Tin House,\u00a0LitHub, Electric Lit, The Brooklyn Rail,\u00a0The Evergreen Review, New York Quarterly, Cleaver Magazine, Jadaliyya,<\/strong>\u00a0and others.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThis Book is tight, intelligent, and important, and sure to secure Woods a seat in the pantheon of critical twenty-first-century voices.&#8221;\u00a0<strong>\u2014 \u00a0Booklist<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;[Things To Do When You&#8217;re Goth in the Country is a] collection of eight uncompromising stories set in rural Illinois. In visceral descriptions of decay, boredom, and limited opportunities, (&#8230;)\u00a0Woods\u2019s characters struggle to eke out an identity, as they confront the bleak difficulties of their lives and persist in surviving.&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0<strong>&#8211;\u00a0Publisher&#8217;s Weekly<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Think of Woods\u00a0as a literary exorcist, calling out certain entities that possess rural America: isolation, working-class\u00a0<\/em><em>poverty, drugs, incarceration, military dogma, and evangelical religion.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><strong>\u2014\u00a0The Rumpus<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6177\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Image-with-Booklist-.jpg?resize=463%2C329&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"463\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"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, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Image-with-Booklist-.jpg?w=560&amp;ssl=1 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/chavisa3.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listChavisa Woods is interviewed here about her writing project, 100 Things, which also uses the hashtag #sexismfuckingsucks. She was interviewed previously about her book,\u00a0Things To Do When You&#8217;re Goth in the Country\u00a0here. And a second time about LGBTQ issues, particularly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7140,"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],"tags":[67,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-7136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-writers","8":"tag-new-york-city","9":"tag-us"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/kikismith.jpg?fit=800%2C530&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p47FRq-1R6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7136","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=7136"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7143,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7136\/revisions\/7143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}