Ames Hawkins is a transgenre writer and the author of These are Love(d) Letters, an award-winning, genre-bending visual memoir and work of literary nonfiction. Their work appears in a number of edited volumes, and across a range of academic and literary publications—both print and online—such as Pre/Text, Constellations, Palaver Journal, enculturation, Slag Glass City, The Feminist Wire, The Rumpus, and Water~Stone Review. A Professor of English and Creative Writing, and the Associate Provost for Faculty Research and Development at Columbia College Chicago, Hawkins also co-hosted and co-produced the scholarly podcast Masters of Text (mastersoftext.com).
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