Heidi Siegrist’s book, All Y’all: Queering Southernness in US Fiction, 1980–2020, explores the boundaries of negotiating place and sexuality by using the concept of “southernness,” a purposefully fluid idea of the South that extends beyond simple geography and eschews familiar ideas of the southern canon. In her SouthTalk, Siegrist will explore literature that imagines building queer southern community through food. 

Heidi Siegrist is an editor and the director of the Sewanee Young Writers’ Conference at the University of the South.

This event is co-sponsored by the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies and is part of Oxford Pride Week. For more information about Oxford Pride, visit sarahisomcenter.org.