Join Always Crashing, Barrelhouse, Grimoire, Plays Inverse, Publishing Genius, and Trnsfr Magazine at 7pm on Wednesday, March 27th for a glamorous AWP kick-off night of cocktails and readings. No cover, because we love you.
Featuring:
John Colasacco
Ashley Farmer
Chelsea Harris
Adam Lauver
Jake Levine, reading translations of Kim Kyung Ju
Justin Marks
Dolan Morgan
Døgtail Nørth
Monique Quintana
Nicole Steinberg
Chris Tonelli
Kerri Webster
John Colasacco’s books include Antigolf (CCM, 2015), The The Information Crusher (Spuyten Duyvil, 2016), Two Teenagers (Horse Less Press, 2016), and the forthcoming The Wagners (TRNSFR, 2019). He received an MFA in creative writing from Syracuse University, and is a recipient of The Iowa Review Award in poetry. His poems and fiction have appeared in Vol. 1 Brooklyn, YesPoetry, Hobart, Tarpaulin Sky, and he is currently at work on a new manuscript called Interviews with Objects.
Ashley Farmer is the author of a chapbook and three books, most recently The Women (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016). Her work has been published in places like TriQuarterly, TRNSFR, The Progressive, Santa Monica Review, Buzzfeed, Flaunt, Nerve, Gigantic, Salt Hill Journal, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of Ninth Letter’s 2018 Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction, the Los Angeles Review‘s 2017 Short Fiction Award, and fellowships from Syracuse University and the Baltic Writing Residency. Ashley lives in Salt Lake City, UT.
Chelsea Harris has appeared in The Conium Review, Always Crashing, Literary Orphans, Smokelong Quarterly, The Portland Review, and Grimoire, among others. She received her MFA from Columbia College Chicago and recently completed a residency at the Vermont Studio Center.
Adam Lauver—author of The Last Thing I’ll Ever Write (Part One) (Plays Inverse, 2019)—is an actor, comedian, and recovering PhD student. His work includes dialogic communication research and practice, social justice activism, and facilitating workshops in jails and prisons. As of this writing he’s the top Google result for “man falls in shower gif.” He is prouder of that than you might think.
Kim Kyung Ju has published over 15 books of poetry, essays, translation, and poetic drama. These include I am a Season That Does Not Exist in the World (Black Ocean, 2016), one of the most successfully selling books of poetry in Korean history; Bred from the Eyes of a Wolf (Plays Inverse, 2018); Whale and Vapor (Black Ocean, 2019); and Butterfly Sleep (Tupelo Press, 2019). Kim has been the recipient of many prestigious awards in Korea, including the Kim Su-young prize and Today’s Young Artist Prize.
Jake Levine is a writer and translator and has received various awards and grants for his poetry and translation including a Fulbright scholarship and a KGSP scholarship. He is an assistant professor of Creative Writing at Keimyung University and teaches stylistics at the Korean Literature Translation Academy. His translation of Bred from the Eyes of a Wolf (Plays Inverse, 2018) is the first publication of Kim Kyung Ju’s playwriting in English.
Justin Marks is the author of You’re Going to Miss Me When You’re Bored (Barrelhouse Books, 2014) and A Million in Prizes (New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2009), which was chosen by Carl Phillips as the winner of the 2009 New Issues Poetry Prize. He is co-founder of Birds, LLC and lives in Queens, New York.
Dolan Morgan is a writer and illustrator living in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. He is the author of two story collections: That’s When the Knives Come Down (A|P, 2014) and Insignificana (CCM, 2016). His work can be found in The Believer, at Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, on NPR, in a comic series on The Rumpus, and in the trash.
Døgtail Nørth is a transfemme witch and an ignorant multimedia artist and tattooist based out of the Pacific Northwest. She likes goblins and long walks on the beach and can be found on twitter at @horsetrauma.
Monique Quintana is a Senior Contributing Editor at Luna Luna Magazine and a pop culture contributor at Clash Media. Her novella, Cenote City is forthcoming from Clash Books in 2019. She blogs about Latinx Literature at her site, Blood Moon.
Nicole Steinberg is the author of two books of poetry: Glass Actress (Furniture Press Books, 2017) and Getting Lucky (Spooky Girlfriend Press, 2013). Her chapbooks include Fat Dreams (Barrelhouse, 2018), Clever Little Gang, winner of the 4X4 Furniture Press Chapbook Award (2014), and two titles from dancing girl press: Undressing (2014) and Birds of Tokyo (2011). She lives in Philadelphia.
Chris Tonelli works in the Libraries at NC State and co-owns So & So Books in downtown Raleigh, where he lives with his wife, Allison, and their two kids, Miles and Vera. He is a founding editor of the independent poetry press, Birds, LLC, and he curates the So & So Series and edits So & So Magazine. In addition to The Trees Around, he is the author of five chapbooks.
Kerri Webster is the author of two books of poetry: Grand & Arsenal (2012) and We Do Not Eat Our Hearts Alone (2005). The recipient of awards from the Whiting Foundation and the Poetry Society of America, she has taught in the MFA programs at Washington University in St. Louis and Boise State University.
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