Event Details
Tuesday, July 8th
7:30pm
Featuring
Samantha Mann
https://www.samantha-mann.com/Samantha Mann is the author of Dyke Delusions and Putting Out: Essays on Otherness and the editor of I Feel Love: Notes on Queer Joy. Her essays appear in The Cut, Vogue, Elle, Today Show, HuffPost Personal and others.
Colin Lubner
Colin Lubner writes and teaches in a shore town in southern New Jersey. His work is out there, if you'd like to find it.
Hope Elizabeth Kidd
https://hopeelizabethkidd.com/Hope Elizabeth Kidd lives in New York City with her husband, five children, and an assortment of pets. She enjoys writing about motherhood, mental health, and body image. She is working on a memoir about her childhood in Zimbabwe and recently completed her MFA in creative writing from the City College of New York. She has been published in MUTHA magazine, Halfway Down the Stairs, the Manifest Station, and a print anthology by Horns and Rattles Press. For two years, she worked as an editor on Promethean, City College’s literary journal. At any given moment, you can find her drinking a mocha or complaining about laundry.
Joseph Lezza
https://www.josephlezza.com/Joseph Lezza is a Pushcart and 3x Best of the Net-nominated writer on the east coast. His debut memoir in essays, I’m Never Fine: Scenes and Spasms on Loss (Vine Leaves Press), was a finalist for the 2024 Eric Hoffer Book Award and the 2021 Prize Americana in Prose and was named by Buzzfeed LGBTQ+, them, StyleCaster, abc7 San Francisco, and Lambda Literary as a “Most Anticipated/Best Book of 2023.” His work has been featured in, among others, Longreads, Identity Theory, Variant Literature, and Santa Fe Writers Project. His website is www.josephlezza.com and you can find him on the socials @lezzdoothis or on Bluesky @josephlezza.com.
Carissa Chesanek
https://www.carissachesanek.net/Carissa Chesanek is a writer in Brooklyn with an MFA from The New School. Her work has been seen in the Brooklyn Rail, Electric Literature, The Rumpus, LA Review of Books, and Litro Magazine, where her creative nonfiction essay, “White Deer,” won the Art of Reflection competition. She was a 2021 editorial fellow at Guernica and a member of PEN America’s prison writing committee. She is now a writing mentor at Sloan Kettering’s Visible Ink program and co-host of the Sunday Salon reading series in New York City.
Reading List
Selected works by readers at this event.
