Publication Date January 19, 2021 Three alumni – Gianluca Avanzato ’18, Andy Cassarino ’18 and Atiba Rougier ’06 – will speak on writing, activism and getting published in a panel set for Wednesday, Jan. 20 at 5 p.m. Gianluca Avanzato is a writer, poet and linguist from Upstate New York whose work explores home, ancestry, memory, space, stories and language. He recently published a poetry collection, City of the Hill (about his native Oneonta, N.Y.), and several other poems, short stories, and articles. His work has appeared in pacificREVIEW, HEREYOUARE and Constellate Literary Journal. Andrew Cassarino, a native of Rutland, Vt., studied U.S. history at Union with a focus on race and memory. His previous work has appeared in smaller publications.