AWP Kickoff Reading at The Stacks

Join us for an off-site AWP Kickoff Reading with Chelsea Bieker, Diana Marie Delgado, Mark Doten, Melissa Duclos, and Kimberly King Parsons. The Stacks has great coffee and food for purchase and there will be FREE WINE until we run out 🙂

Chelsea Bieker is from California’s Central Valley. She is the recipient of a 2018 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award and the author of two forthcoming books, the novel GODSHOT (2020) and the story collection, COWBOYS AND ANGELS (2021). Her writing has been published in Granta, McSweeney’s, Catapult, Electric Literature, Joyland, No Tokens, and others. Her work has been supported by the MacDowell Colony and the Tin House Writer’s Workshop. She holds a BS in journalism from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and an MFA in creative writing from Portland State University. Currently she lives in California with her husband and two children where she teaches writing and is at work on a narrative nonfiction project.

Diana Marie Delgado’s debut poetry collection, “Tracing the Horse,” is forthcoming from BOA Editions (Fall, 2019). She is the author of the chapbook “Late Night Talks with Men I Think I Trust” (Center for Book Arts, 2015) and is a 2017 NEA Fellowship recipient. She is the Literary Director of the Poetry Center at the University of Arizona in Tucson and holds an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University.

Mark Doten is the author of the novels Trump Sky Alpha and The Infernal, and was named to Granta’s once-a-decade “Best of Young American Novelists” list in 2017. He is the executive literary fiction editor at Soho Press and teaches at Columbia University and Princeton University. He lives in Princeton, NJ.

Melissa Duclos is the author of the novel Besotted (7.13 Books, 2019). Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Salon, and Bustle, among other venues. She is the founder of Magnify: Small Presses, Bigger, a monthly newsletter celebrating small press books. She has an MFA from Columbia University and lives in Portland, Oregon.

Kimberly King Parsons is the author of the short story collection Black Light, forthcoming from Vintage August 13, 2019, and the novel The Boiling River, forthcoming from Knopf in 2020. She lives with her partner and sons in Portland, OR, where she is completing a novel about Texas, motherhood, and LSD.