{"id":9444,"date":"2021-12-23T09:17:04","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T17:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/getlit\/?post_type=tribe_organizer&#038;p=9444"},"modified":"2021-12-23T09:18:15","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T17:18:15","slug":"athena-dixon","status":"publish","type":"tribe_organizer","link":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/getlit\/organizer\/athena-dixon\/","title":{"rendered":"Athena Dixon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; padding-right: 30px; padding-top: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px;\" src=\"https:\/\/in.ewu.edu\/getlit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2021\/10\/Athena-DixonSquare-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Athena Dixon\" \/>Athena Dixon is a poet and essayist born and raised in NE, Ohio. She is the author of the chapbook<i>\u00a0No God in This Room<\/i>\u00a0(Argus House Press, 2018) and a debut collection of personal essays titled<i>\u00a0The Incredible Shrinking Woman<\/i>\u00a0(Split\/Lip Press, 2020). Her work also appears in\u00a0<i>The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic<\/i>\u00a0(Haymarket Books, 2018) and\u00a0<i>Getting to the Truth: The Craft and Practice of Creative Non-Fiction<\/i>\u00a0(Hippocampus Books, 2021). Additionally, her poetry and essays have appeared in\u00a0<i>GAY Magazine, Grub Street, Narratively, Shenandoah<\/i>, and<i>\u00a0So to Speak Journal<\/i>\u00a0among others. She is a recipient of a fellowship from the Martha\u2019s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing and a 2nd Book residency from Tin House. She resides in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Athena Dixon is a poet and essayist born and raised in NE, Ohio. She is the author of the chapbook\u00a0No God in This Room\u00a0(Argus House Press, 2018) and a debut collection of personal essays titled\u00a0The Incredible Shrinking Woman\u00a0(Split\/Lip Press, 2020). Her work also appears in\u00a0The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic\u00a0(Haymarket Books, 2018) and\u00a0Getting &#8230; <a title=\"Athena Dixon\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/getlit\/organizer\/athena-dixon\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Athena Dixon\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":[],"_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9444","tribe_organizer","type-tribe_organizer","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/getlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer\/9444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/getlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/getlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_organizer"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/getlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/getlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer\/9444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9448,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/getlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer\/9444\/revisions\/9448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/getlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}