This mixed-genre workshop will look at how the theme of place offers fruitful opportunities to engage with themes of identity and social justice, challenge fraught assumptions about where queer and trans life thrives, as well as conceptualize affirming futures. We’ll consider how to render the settings where we feel most authentically ourselves and craft work that interrogates the idea that setting is meant only for description: rather, it is an inexorable part of who we are.
CD Eskilson is the author of Scream / Queen (Acre Books, 2025) and the translator of Modern Woman (World Poetry Books, 2026), the 1916 poetry collection by Finland-Swedish poet Edith Södergran. They are a recipient of the C.D. Wright / Academy of American Poets Prize and have been nominated for Best of the Net, Best New Poets, and the Pushcart Prize. CD is poetry co-editor at Split Lip Magazine. They were once in a punk band.
