Red Light Lit: AWP

Red Light Lit is a mashup of photography, poetry, and prose set to a live score, featuring the photography of Erin Wilson Farrell. The readings explore love, relationships, sexuality, and gender. Featured readers include: Jessie Carver, Amber Flame, Laura Gibson, Miah Jeffra, Jennifer Lewis, and Preeti Vangani. Musical guest Nick Jaina will be providing the live score, singing original music, and reading from his upcoming novel, Hitomi.

AMBER FLAME is an interdisciplinary artist and writer whose work has garnered residencies with Hedgebrook, The Watering Hole, Vermont Studio Center, and Yefe Nof. Flame’s original work has been published in diverse arenas, including Def Jam Poetry, Winter Tangerine, DIALOGIST, Split This Rock, Black Heart Magazine, Sundress Publications, FreezeRay, Redivider, and more. As Hugo House’s writer-in-residence for poetry, she is working on her second book of poetry, titled apocrifa. www.theamberflame.com

JESSIE CARVER is a writer and editor who lives in Portland, Oregon, but grew up on a farm in the borderlands of New Mexico. Her fiction has appeared in Hobart, Entropy, and Watershed Review, her poetry is included in the anthology Love Is the Drug & Other Dark Poems, and she co-authored the nonfiction book Rethinking Paper & Ink: The Sustainable Publishing Revolution.

LAURA GIBSON is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She currently records for the U.S. independent label Barsuk Records, and the Berlin-based label City Slang. Gibson’s most recent album Goners was released October 26, 2018. She has an MFA in fiction writing from Hunter College.

JENNIFER LEWIS is the editor of Red Light Lit. Her fiction has been published in Cosmonaut’s Avenue, Eleven Eleven, Fourteen Hills Press, Midnight Breakfast, sPARKLE & bLINK, and X-Ray Lit Mag.

NICK JAINA is an author and musician born in Sacramento and currently residing in no particular place. He is looking for an agent and publisher for his first novel, Hitomi. His memoir Get It While You Can, was a finalist for the 2016 Oregon Book Award. He has released several albums and co-founded a ballet company. He teaches writing workshops around the world.

MIAH JEFFRA is author of the collections The First Church of What’s Happening (Nomadic Press) and The Fabulous Ekphrastic Fantastic! (forthcoming Sibling Rivalry Press). Awards include the New Millennium Prize for fiction, the Sidney Lanier Fiction Prize, The Atticus Review Creative Nonfiction Prize, the Alice Judson Hayes Fellowship, a Lambda Literary Fellowship, and finalist for the Prairie Schooner Book Prize. Residencies include Ragdale and The Hub City Writers Project. Recent publications include The North American Review, Fourteen Hills Review, The Atticus Review, The Nervous Breakdown and Fifth Wednesday. Miah is founding editor of queer literary collaborative, Foglifter Press.

PREETI VANGANI is a poet & essayist from Mumbai. Her work has been published in BOAAT, Buzzfeed, Noble/Gas Qtrly, Threepenny Review among other journals. She is the winner of the RL Poetry Award 2017 and her debut book of poems titled Mother Tongue Apologize was published by RLFPA Editions in February 2019. She holds an MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco.

ERIN WILSON, also known as ErinTheArtist, is best known for her vintage themed photography and work with analog cameras and processes. Originating in Memphis, TN she began a pursuit of experimental and film photography in 2005. With vintage themes and the exploration of both rural and urban abandonment she began making her way across the USA in 2006 and settled in the SF Bay. This was the beginning of many years of creation, travel, and collaboration, both in front of the camera and behind. These early years were formative with adventures seeking to capture a timeless beauty as well as the deeper nature of human experience. Erin delves into themes of self expression which can take the guise of beautiful wonderment which ranges from pure innocence to the darker themes of daily reality.