Risa Wolf is a nonbinary pet parent, writer, and collector of fountain pen inks e.g. professional finger-stainer. They imagine houses for book-ghosts for a living. Their writing can be found in Apex, in the Air and Nothingness Press anthology “Upon A Thrice Time”, and upcoming in Cossmass Infinities. Risa plays online on Twitter at @risawolf and blogs at killerpuppytails.com.
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Speculative Fiction can be a way of escape for both the writer and the reader. What are ways that trauma shows up in fiction? How does it translate to the page? How do we approach out own trauma when developing stories versus how do we approach writing about trauma that isn’t our lived experience? Authors from various backgrounds and perspectives discuss how to create a safe space to process trauma through storytelling.