Felicia Rose Chavez is an award-winning educator with an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Iowa. She is the author of The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom and co-editor of The BreakBeat Poets Volume 4: LatiNEXT with Willie Perdomo and Jose Olivarez. Chavez served as Program Director to Young Chicago Authors and founded GirlSpeak, a literary webzine for young women. She went on to teach writing at the University of New Mexico, where she was distinguished as the Most Innovative Instructor of the Year, the University of Iowa, where she was distinguished as the Outstanding Instructor of the Year, and Colorado College, where she received the Theodore Roosevelt Collins Outstanding Faculty Award. Her creative scholarship earned her a Ronald E. McNair Fellowship, a University of Iowa Graduate Dean’s Fellowship, a Riley Scholar Fellowship, and a Hadley Creatives Fellowship.Originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico, Felicia currently serves as Scholar-in-Residence in Creativity and Innovation at Colorado College. Find her at [...]

Introduction
Chapter One: Decolonizing the Creative Classroom
Chapter Two: Preparing for Change
Chapter Three: Fostering Engagement, Mindfulness, and Generosity
Chapter Four: Instituting Reading and Writing Rituals
Chapter Five: Completing the Canon
Chapter Six: Owning the Language of Craft
Chapter Seven: TeachingWriters to Workshop
Chapter Eight:Conferencing as Critique
Chapter Nine: Promoting Camaraderie and Collective Power
Appendix: Platforming Writers of Color: A 21st Century Reference Guide