Erica Cardwell

Session 5: Monday August 23 - Sunday, August 29

Erica N. Cardwell is a writer, critic, and educator based in Brooklyn. She often writes about print, archival media, visual culture, and interdisciplinary performance; she centers Black feminist theory as her primary critical approach. Cardwell is deeply fascinated with the imaginations of people of color, as a tool for social, spiritual, and collective movement. Her work has appeared in Bomb, The Believer, The Brooklyn Rail, frieze, Hyperallergic, Green Mountains Review, Passages North, and other publications. Her memoir was named a finalist for the 2020 Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, and she has been awarded residencies and fellowships from the Lambda Literary Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, and Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Recently, she was invited to join the Queer Art Mentorship Fellows cohort to work with poet and mentor Pamela Sneed. In 2016, Cardwell received her MFA in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. Currently, she teaches writing and social justice at the New School. erica-cardwell.com