I’m pleased to be part of the 2022 AWP panel “Noir as an Agent for Social Change: A Look at Transgressive Genre Fiction” with panelists Steph Cha, Jay Gertzman, Elizabeth Hand, and moderator Art Taylor. The panel can be accessed on Thursday, March 24, at 9 a.m., via the AWP22 Virtual Conference Platform (registration required). Here’s the event description: Should people dare to dream with the forces of the world allied

New York, NY, February 28 — Richie Narvaez, author and Assistant Adjunct Professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology, was awarded the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Adjunct Teaching this month. “I am honored and humbled. It’s important to me but more important that this award exists, to recognize teachers who so often get disregarded,” says Narvaez, who teaches in the English and Communication Studies department at FIT. “We