Event Details
Tuesday, May 13th
7:30pm
Featuring
Randee Dawn
https://randeedawn.com/Randee Dawn is a Brooklyn-based author and journalist who writes speculative fiction at night and entertainment and lifestyle stories during the day for publications like The New York Times, NBCNews.com, Variety, The Los Angeles Times, and Emmy Magazine. Her debut novel, Tune in Tomorrow, was published by Solaris.
Freda Epum
http://www.fredaepum.com/Freda Epum is a Nigerian American writer and artist. She is the author of two chapbooks, Input/Output and Entryways into memories that might assemble me, which won the Iron Horse Literary Review Chapbook Competition. She is the cocreator of the Black American Tree Project, an interactive workshop about the legacies of slavery in American society. Epum’s work has been published in The Rumpus, Electric Literature, Vol 1. Brooklyn, Entropy, Bending Genres, and others. She received her MFA from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Her work has been supported by Lambda Literary, the Tin House Workshop, VONA, the Ragdale Foundation, the Anderson Center at Tower View, and the Jordan-Goodman Prize.
Briallen Hopper
https://www.briallenhopper.com/Briallen Hopper is the author of Hard to Love: Essays and Confessions and the co-editor of the online magazine Killing the Buddha. Her writing has appeared in theLos Angeles Review of Books, New York Magazine/The Cut, the Paris Review Daily, The Seattle Star, The Washington Post, and elsewhere. She teaches creative nonfiction at Queens College, CUNY, and lives in Elmhurst, Queens.
Abeer Y. Hoque
https://www.olivewitch.com/Abeer Y. Hoque is a Nigerian-born Bangladeshi American writer and photographer. She likes fanny bags, Szechuan fried peanuts, and fresh starts. Her books include a coffee table book (The Long Way Home), a linked collection of stories, poems, and photographs (The Lovers and the Leavers), and a memoir (Olive Witch). See more at olivewitch.com.
Molly Roden Winter
https://www.mollyrodenwinter.com/Molly Roden Winter is the author of the New York Times bestseller, MORE: A Memoir of Open Marriage. Her essays have appeared in Time, The Cut, Romper, and elsewhere. She lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn with her husband and two part-time roommates also known as her sons.
Reading List
Selected works by readers at this event.
