AWP Offsite: Tiny’s Shot of Afternoon Espresso

Wake yourself up with some fantastical frothy fiction and pour-over poetry from supercool and caffeinated nonbinary and lady writers at Tiny’s Coffee shop.

Featuring short readings from Jamie Mortara, K Chess, Nino Cipri, Jenn Marie Nunes, Mo McFeely, Laurin DeChae, and Maria Romasco Moore.

jamie mortara (they/them/their) is a queer poet, performer, publisher, organizer, and artist. jamie is author of the poetry collections GOOD MORNING AMERICA I AM HUNGRY AND ON FIRE (YesYes Books, 2018) and SOME PLANET (YesYes Books, 2015) and the interactive fiction collection small creatures / wide field (tNY Press). Three of their DIY zines are indie bestsellers and the others are likely scattered to the winds somewhere. jamie is founder of the audio poetry magazine Voicemail Poems, a National Poetry Slam competitor, and has performed their poetry in 29 states and counting.

Nino Cipri is a queer and trans/nonbinary writer, editor, and researcher currently enrolled in the University of Kansas’s MFA in fiction. A multidisciplinary artist, Nino has also written plays, screenplays, and radio features; performed as a dancer, actor, and puppeteer; and worked as a backstage theater tech. Nino’s book of short fiction, Homesick, will be out in 2019 from Dzanc Press, and their novella, FINNA, about a wormhole in IKEA, will be out in 2020 from Tor.

Jenn Marie Nunes is the author of six chapbooks, including the collaborative HYMN: An Ovulution (Bloof Books) and the Projector (The Cupboard). Her work appears in numerous journals, including ACTION, YES!, Ninth Letter, Black Warrior Review, Horse Less Review, [PANK], and smoking glue gun, and she is co-founding editor of TENDE RLOIN, an online gallery for poetry. Her first full-length poetry collection, AND/OR (2015), was selected by Dawn Lundy Martin as winner of the inaugural Switchback Books Queer Voices award.

LAURIN DeCHAE is an M.F.A. candidate for poetry at the University of New Orleans, where she acts as the associate editor for Bayou Magazine. She is active in the fields of education and composition, assisting in programs such as the Greater New Orleans Writing Project, Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, and the Tennessee Williams Literary Festival. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Harpur Palate, Cleaver Magazine, burntdistrict, S/WORD, and Rose Red Review.

Mo McFeely is a poet living in Portland.

Maria Romasco Moore is the author of Ghostographs, an interconnected collection of flash fiction inspired by vintage photographs. Her first novel, Some Kind of Animal, will be out in 2020. Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in DIAGRAM, Hobart, Interfictions, Kaleidotrope, Lightspeed, and the anthology Women Destroy Science Fiction.