Ames Hawkins and Love(d) Letters

We are very pleased to announce the next writer for this year’s Signed, Sealed, Delivered panel, Ames Hawkins. Ames is the author of These are Love(d) Letters, a genre-bending visual memoir and work of literary nonfiction that explores the questions: What inspires a person to write a love letter? What inspires a person to save a love letter even when the love has shifted or left? And what does it mean when a person uses someone else’s love letters as a place from which to create their own sense of self?

Recently selected as one of Chicago’s Guild Literary Complex’s 30 Writers to Watch, Ames Hawkins’s work appears in a number of edited volumes, and across a range of academic and literary publications—both print and online—such as Pre/Text, Constellations, Palaver Journal, enculturation, Slag Glass City, The Feminist Wire, The Rumpus, and Water~Stone Review. A Professor of English and Creative Writing, and the Associate Provost for Faculty Research and Development at Columbia College Chicago, Hawkins also co-hosted and co-produced the scholarly podcast Masters of Text (mastersoftext.com). Find out more at www.ameshawkins.com