PORT TOWNSEND — Author and artist Petra Kuppers will speak at Goddard College’s MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts Program at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.
She will read short stories from her new collection, “Ice Bar,” and answer questions in the Reading Room on the second floor of Building 204 at Fort Worden, 200 Battery Way.
“Ice Bar” invites the reader to visit with post-apocalyptic science fiction and psychedelic fantasy, featuring a cast of vulnerable characters whose disability or circumstance becomes an invitation to new lives, new stories and new opportunities.
Kuppers, an internationally active disability scholar and artist, is a recipient of the American Society for Theatre Research’s best dance/theatre book award, and the National Women’s Caucus for the Arts’ Award for Arts and Activism.
She is releasing her first fiction book, a collection of speculative short stories.
In 2017, individual stories received nominations for a Pushcart (from the Dunes Review) and for the Best of the Net Anthology (from Anomaly/Drunken Boat).
She is a professor of performance studies in the University of Michigan’s English and Women’s Studies departments, and she teaches for the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at Goddard College.
Kuppers is a disability culture activist, a wheelchair dancer and a community performance artist.
