Chavisa Woods

Chavisa Woods is a New York City-based author, and winner of the Shirley Jackson Award.

Background

Woods was born and raised in a rural farm town, Sandoval Illinois, and lived from 2000 to 2003 in St. Louis, Missouri, where she was a resident of the anarchist collective C.A.M.P. (Community Arts and Media Project[1]). She moved in 2003 to New York City, where she resided and worked for A Gathering of the Tribes, art gallery-salon and small press, owned and operated by novelist and professor Steve Cannon.

Work

Woods is the author of three books of fiction: Things To Do When You're Goth in the Country (2017), The Albino Album (2013), and Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind (2013). Her most recent book, 100 Times (A Memoir of Sexism), was published in 2019.

During 2008 she collaborated with a contemporary video artist and animator to produce abstract animations to accompany the stories from Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind.

Woods' work has appeared in numerous publications including Tin House, Electric Lit, TFull Stop Magazine, Lit Hub, The Brooklyn Rail, The Evergreen Review, and many other. She has featured as a reader at multiple venues in across the country, including the Whitney Museum as part of Butch Morris' Chorus of Poets, the New York Vision Festival, Quimby's Bookstore Chicago, City Lights Bookstore, Town Hall Seattle, Hot Festival at the Dixon Place Theater NYC, The Howl festival NYC, The Brecht Forum, Pink Pony Reading Series, Blue Stockings Bookstore NYC, The Fresh Fruit Festival, Slam Poetry in St. Louis and the National Poetry Slam.

Awards

Woods received the Shirley Jackson Award in 2018, for a story in her collection, Things To Do When You're Goth in the Country.

Woods was the recipient of the Kathy Acker Award in writing, 2018, and the Shirley Jackson Award.

Woods was awarded the Cobalt Fiction Prize in 2013 for her short work of poetic prose entitled "Things to do when you're Goth in the Country".[2]

Woods was the 2008 recipient of the Jerome Foundation Travel Grant for Literature.

Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind was a finalist for the 21st Lambda Literary Award for Debut Fiction.[3]

Other publications

Woods has published prose and poetry in a number of magazines, including:

  • Lit Hub
  • Electric Lit
  • Tin House Magazine
  • Sensitive Skin 2017 [4]
  • Cleaver Magazine 2013
  • Adanna 2013
  • Union Station Magazine 2011 [5]
  • The Evergreen Review 2011 [6]
  • Danse Macabre- Stonewall Issue, 2009 [7]
  • Poetz.com Green Issue, 2008
  • Blue Fog Journal, 2007
  • Cake Poetry, 2007
  • Tribes Magazine, 2007
  • The Red Doll (chapbook) – 2006
  • Matador, 2006
  • The BARD Gay and Lesbian Poetry Review, 2006
  • Chronogram, 2006
  • Conversations with the Other Woman (chapbook), 2006
  • Where We Live, 2005,
  • Calling the Red, Chapbook, 2005
  • Xanadou, 2004
  • Wildflowers, 2004
  • In The Fray, 2004

Fiction
  • "Things to do When You're Goth in the Country" Short Fiction Collection, Seven Stories Press, 2017[8]
  • "What's Happening on the News?" Short Fiction Quaint Magazine, 2016
  • "The Albino Album" Seven Stories Press, 2013
  • How to Stop Smoking.... Usama" Sensitive Skin Magazine 2012
  • "A New Mowhawk" Jadalliya 2012
  • Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind, Fly By Night Press, 2008[9]
  • "The Smallest Actions",[10] The Fiction Circus, 2008
  • "The Bell Tower", Prima Materia, 2006
  • Short story in Fuzion 1003, 2004

Nonfiction
  • Autonomedia, "Worst Book I Ever Read" (essay), 2008
  • Sotheby’s Catalogue, May 2008
  • Aganzia Catalogue (art review), 2006
  • A Gathering of the Tribes' Webmag, "Borat Receives Memo"
  • 100 Times: A Memoir of Sexism, 2019

Documentaries
  • Rhapsodists, 2004

Book reviews

References
  1. "C. A. M. P. - The Community, Arts, & Movement Project exists to empower creative expression, and celebrate interconnection". stlcamp.org. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
  2. "2013 Cobalt Writing Prizes". Cobalt. 2013-12-04. Retrieved 2017-06-06.
  3. Cerna, Antonio Gonzalez (2010-02-18). "21st Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2017-07-06.
  4. "Seven Gifts - Chavisa Woods - Writing". sensitiveskinmagazine.com. 19 April 2017. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
  5. "Fit mit Sport – unionstationmag.com". unionstationmag.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
  6. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-09-27. Retrieved 2011-08-24.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. "The Stonewall Gang". 9 October 2009. Archived from the original on 9 October 2009. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
  8. "Emma Roberts on Instagram: "Things To Do When You're Goth In The Country & Other Stories 🕶 I love this title so much 🕸@belletrist 💙 what is everybody else reading ? 🖤"". Instagram. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
  9. Go Magazine review
  10. "the fiction circus". fictioncircus.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
  11. "Fiction Book Review: Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country by Chavisa Woods. Seven Stories, $23.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-60980-745-0". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
  12. than 180, Booklist Online: More; Librarians, 000 Book Reviews for; Groups, Book; Association, book lovers-from the trusted experts at the American Library. Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country, by Chavisa Woods - Booklist Online. Retrieved 15 January 2019 – via www.booklistonline.com.
  13. "The Pedestal Magazine > Current Issue > Reviews >Chavisa Woods's Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind". 27 December 2008. Archived from the original on 27 December 2008. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
  14. Staff, Book (14 December 2007). "Prose Roundup". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
  15. Keckler, Joseph (10 October 2010). "Book: Love Does Not Make Me Gentle Or Kind". GO Magazine. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
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