MacDowell Fellow, Chavisa Woods, is the author of four books including Things To Do When You're Goth in the Country, and 100 Times (A Memoir of Sexism), both from Seven Stories Press. She is the recipient of the Shirley Jackson Award, the Kathy Acker Award in Writing, the Cobalt Prize for Fiction, and others.

Her work has received praise from the New York Times, the LA Times, Publisher’s Weekly, The Stranger, The Seattle Review of Books, Booklist, and many other media outlets. She has appeared on such notable talk shows as The Young Turks, and NPR’s 1A. Her writing has appeared in such publications as Tin House, LitHub, Electric Lit, Full Stop, The Brooklyn Rail, The Evergreen Review, New York Quarterly, and many other publications. She currently serves as the Executive Director of A Gathering of the Tribes, and is completing her fifth book, a collection of short fiction about parties and death.

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