/wgst/ en /wgst/2024/02/09/rupture-files-supernatural-stories-life-fissures-disaster <span>The Rupture Files: Supernatural stories of life in the fissures of disaster</span> <span><span>Anonymous (not verified)</span></span> <span><time datetime="2024-02-09T00:00:00-07:00" title="Friday, February 9, 2024 - 00:00">Fri, 02/09/2024 - 00:00</time> </span> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle focal_image_wide"> <img loading="lazy" src="/wgst/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/article-thumbnail/the_rupture_files_rgb_300_copy.png?h=c760566d&amp;itok=SUr1MleT" width="1200" height="800" alt="The Rupture Files by Nathan Alexander Moore"> </div> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-categories" itemprop="about"> <span class="visually-hidden">Categories:</span> <div class="ucb-article-category-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-folder-open"></i> </div> <a href="/wgst/taxonomy/term/114"> books </a> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-tags" itemprop="keywords"> <span class="visually-hidden">Tags:</span> <div class="ucb-article-tag-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-tags"></i> </div> <a href="/wgst/taxonomy/term/284" hreflang="en">books</a> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default 3"> <div class="ucb-article-text" itemprop="articleBody"> <div><p><strong> the author:</strong>&nbsp;Nathan (she/they) is a Black transfemme writer. She is an assistant professor at the ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ whose research explores Black transfemininity, speculative fictions and temporality. Their debut chapbook, <em>small colossus</em>, was published in 2021, and their fiction was shortlisted for the 2022 Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Award. She was a 2023 Lambda Literary Fellow in poetry.</p><p><strong> the book:</strong>&nbsp;"Across multiple worlds in upheaval, a curious cast of Black queer characters must choose between what they already know themselves to be and what they might yet become in the cataclysm.&nbsp;At once tender and audacious, Nathan Alexander Moore’s debut collection tells the stories of extraordinary creatures making impossible but human decisions. Traversing apocalypses both big and small, these captivating tales vibrate with the tensions between loss and growth; self and community; precarity and possibility."</p><p>To be released April 4, 2024</p><p>For more information on Dr. Moore's new book and a for a curated playlist to accompany the book&nbsp;<a href="https://www.hajarpress.com/books/the-rupture-files" rel="nofollow">visit the publisher's wesbite</a>.</p><p> </p><div class="imageMediaStyle medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <img loading="lazy" src="/wgst/sites/default/files/styles/medium_750px_50_display_size_/public/article-image/the_rupture_files_rgb_300_copy.png?itok=p40zM1b5" width="750" height="1151" alt="The Rupture Files by Nathan Alexander Moore"> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--ucb-related-articles-block paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div>Off</div> </div> </h2> <div>Traditional</div> <div>0</div> <div>On</div> <div>White</div> Fri, 09 Feb 2024 07:00:00 +0000 Anonymous 1669 at /wgst