Rainbow In The Dark: Exploring Queer Horror
Rainbow In The Dark: Exploring Queer Horror
- Date:
- Wednesday, June 25, 2025
- Time:
- 6:00pm - 7:30pm
- Location:
- Main Library - Outdoors - 4th Floor Terrace
- Location:
- Main Library (300 N. Roxboro St)
- Audience:
- Adult Emerging Adult: 18-24 Year Olds
- Categories:
- Author Visit Humanities LGBTQ
Join Durham County Library and the Horror Writers Association for a special discussion of queerness, folk horror, and queer folk horror with local authors Michael G. Williams and Jes Malitoris.
Michael G. Williams writes queer horror and sci-fi about outsiders finding their people, including Perishables (Laine Cunningham Award), A Fall in Autumn (Manly Wade Wellman Award), and Servant Sovereign. He studied Performance Studies at UNC Chapel Hill and Appalachian Studies at Appalachian State University, is a Trustee of the NC Writers Network, and is a member of SFWA and HWA. Michael lives in Pittsboro, NC, with his husband and a variety of animals.
Jes Malitoris is a nonbinary horror and dark fantasy author from Durham, NC. You can find xer short fiction in magazines such as Necksnap, Cosmic Horror Monthly, and The Skull & Laurel, and in anthologies such as the Locus-nominated, The Crawling Moon: Queer Tales of Inescapable Dread (Neon Hemlock, 2024). Jes is an HWA member whose work has been nominated for the Brave New Weird Award. When not hunched in xer writer’s cave, you can find Jes in xer garden or hunched over the latest knitting project. Jes graduated from UNC in 2012 and earned a PhD from Duke in 2019, and no, xie does not root for either team.