Editors and contributors from two new anthologies about women’s anger—Burn It Down and All of Me—present short readings and an opportunity for audience participation to unleash our collective rage.

This event is part of LitCrawl Portland, a collaboration between Literary Arts and the Litquake Foundation. Read more here: https://www.litquake.org/lit-crawl-global.html

About the editors:

Lilly Dancyger is a contributing editor and columnist at Catapult, and assistant editor at Barrelhouse Books. She's the editor of Burn It Down, an anthology of essays on women's anger from Seal Press, and the author of Negative Space, a reported and illustrated memoir forthcoming from Santa Fe Writers Project in 2021. Her writing has been published by Longreads, The Washington Post, Glamour, Playboy, Rolling Stone, and more. Lilly lives in New York City, and she spends way too much time on twitter (where you can find her at @lillydancyger).

Dani Burlison is the creator and editor of All of Me: Stories of Love, Anger, and the Female Body (PM Press, 2019) and the author of Some Places Worth Leaving (Tolsun Books, 2020). A former columnist at McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, her other writing appears in publications like Ms. Magazine, Yes! Magazine, KQED, The Rumpus, Portland Review, Earth Island Journal and elsewhere.

About the contributors:

Ariel Gore is the author of a dozen books of fiction and nonfiction including Hexing the Patriarchy, out now from Seal Press, and Fuck Happiness, coming this spring from Microcosm. She teaches online at literarykicthen.com.

Marissa Korbel is the creator and author of The Thread, a monthly essay column for The Rumpus. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including Harper’s Bazaar, Guernica, Bitch, and The Manifest-Station. She works as a public interest attorney on issues affecting campus and minor sexual assault survivors.

G. Ravyn Stanfield is the author of Revolution of the Spirit: Awaken the Healer. Her fiction and essays have been published in The Rumpus, Guernica, Manifest Station, and Nailed Magazine, among others. She uses her background in trauma recovery, teaching, neurobiology, psychology, and performance to coax more of the extraordinary into the world through the cracks in Western civilization.

Marisa Siegel lives, writes, and edits near NYC. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Mills College in Oakland, CA. Her poems have appeared in Handsome, Zaum, (T)here, and elsewhere. She is Editor-in-Chief and owner of The Rumpus. Follow her on Twitter @marisasaystweet.