Anastacia ReneeAnastacia-Reneé is the Writer-in-Residence at Hugo House. She is a full time queer super-shero of color moonlighting as a writer, performance artist and creative writing workshop facilitator. She has received poetry fellowships from Cave Canem, Hedgerook, VONA, Edge (Artist Trust) and Jack Straw, as well as a writing residency from Ragdale. Her theatrical mixed-media project, 9 Ounces: A One Woman Show has debuted at The Project Room, Hugo House, The Twilight Gallery and Gay City. 9 Ounces is a multivalent social justice play unapologetically downward dogging its way through class, race, culture, oppression, depression, survival and epiphany. Anastacia Renée is the Author of 26, (Dancing Girl Press), 2016 James W. Ray Distinguished Writers Award nominee and a 2016 Pushcart nominee, as well as (V.) (Gramma Poetry, 2017), FORGET IT (Black Radish Books, 2017) and Answer(Me) (Winged City Chapbooks-Argus Press, 2017). Read More Read Less