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The second speaker featured as part of Lycoming College’s Environmental Justice Symposium will be creative writer-in-residence E.G. Condé, who will speak on Wednesday, March 4, at 4:30 p.m., in Trogner Presentation Room in the Krapf Gateway Center. Condé will read from his novella “Sordidez,” an indigenous futurist climate-fiction novella published with Stelliform Press, and will answer questions about the work.
A semester-long series of lectures and hands-on activities the Environmental Justice Symposium is designed to inspire students, faculty, and Williamsport residents to think about how the environment impacts their communities, as well as how art and storytelling can support the environmental justice movement. The goal of the Symposium is to educate the Lycoming College community on environmental justice issues in Pennsylvania and beyond.
Condé (he/him/Él) writes science fiction, fantasy, horror, and Taínofuturism. He is a queer Boricua writer of speculative fiction and one of the creators of Taínofuturism, an emerging genre of art and storytelling that imagines decolonized futures that center on indigenous Caribbean traditions and cosmologies. His short fiction appears in Anthropology & Humanism, If There’s Anyone Left, Reckoning, EASST Review, Tree and Stone, Sword & Sorcery, Solarpunk Magazine, and more.
Condé lives another life as an anthropologist of technology and advocate for sustainable digital infrastructure (as Steven Gonzalez Monserrate). When he isn’t conjuring up faraway universes, you might find him hiking through sand dunes or playing 2D RPGs from the 1990s.
This event is co-sponsored by the Environmental Justice Symposium and the Humanities Research Center.
Whether English majors focus on literature or creative writing, their experience in many ways embody a union of writing and pleasure. The Lycoming College English department is a tight-knit literary community where students marry their passions for writing and reading with their natural curiosity about the world around them. To learn more about the English and creative writing program at Lycoming College, visit: https://www.lycoming.edu/english/.