Kristen Gallagher is an associate professor of English who specializes in creative writing at City University of New York, LaGuardia Community College. Her first chapbook, Operator, used documents, materials, and information from her job as a call center operator. She is currently co-editor, with Chris Alexander, of Truck Books (and her book We Are Here came out in 2011). She lives in Queens.
Kristen Gallagher
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Why You Should Experience Funk, God, Jazz, and Medicine: Black Radical Brooklyn
If you think you know New York City history, Black history, American history—anything about Brooklyn at all—but you don’t know about Weeksville, then go to the Creative Time project Funk, God, Jazz, and Medicine: Black Radical Brooklyn before it closes this Sunday, October 12. There are five major sites specific to this ambitious, neighborhood-spanning creative […]
