New York Writers Workshop @ Underland Gallery Reading Series
Spring 2024 #2 -- Saturday, April 27, 2024 / 6:00 PM
Spring 2024 #2 -- Saturday, April 27, 2024 / 6:00 PM
Zilka Joseph is an internationally published poet who has authored six collections, and been nominated for awards such as PEN, American Book Awards, Griffin, and Pushcart prizes. Her work is influenced by Indian and Western cultures, and her Bene Israel roots. She won a Zell Fellowship, the Michael Gutterman award, and the Elsie Choy Lee Scholarship from the University of Michigan. She is the winner of a Notable Best Indie Book award, and two of her books were Foreword INDIES finalists. Her new book is Sweet Malida: Memoires of a Bene Israel Woman. She teaches creative writing. She is also a manuscript advisor and amentor toe writers in her community. www.zilkajoseph.com
Aida Zilelian is a first generation American-Armenian writer, educator and storyteller from Queens, NY. She is the author of The Legacy of Lost Things, recipient of the Tololyan Literary Award. She has been performing at storytelling events in NYC, Montreal and (upcoming) Los Angeles. She has also been featured in the Huffington Post, NPR’s Takeaway, among other reading series and print outlets. Her short story collection These Hills Were Meant for You was shortlisted for the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction and her short story “The Piano” won first prize in the Lighthouse Weekly contest. She is currently working on completing her short story collection Where There Can Be No Breath At All.
Hosted by:
Tim Tomlinson, co-founder and director of New York Writers Workshop. Tims books are Yolanda: An Oral History in Verse (chapbook), Requiem for the Tree Fort I Set on Fire, the story collection This Is Not Happening to You, and, early in 2024, Listening to Fish: meditations from the wet world.
Underland Gallery, 457 77th Street, Unit #1, Brooklyn, NY 11209, btw 4th Ave and 5th Ave (ground level). Take the R Train to 77th St. & 4th Ave. Brooklyn, head east ⅔ of a block from station.
Aida Zilelian is a first generation American-Armenian writer, educator and storyteller from Queens, NY. She is the author of The Legacy of Lost Things, recipient of the Tololyan Literary Award. She has been performing at storytelling events in NYC, Montreal and (upcoming) Los Angeles. She has also been featured in the Huffington Post, NPR’s Takeaway, among other reading series and print outlets. Her short story collection These Hills Were Meant for You was shortlisted for the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction and her short story “The Piano” won first prize in the Lighthouse Weekly contest. She is currently working on completing her short story collection Where There Can Be No Breath At All.
Hosted by:
Tim Tomlinson, co-founder and director of New York Writers Workshop. Tims books are Yolanda: An Oral History in Verse (chapbook), Requiem for the Tree Fort I Set on Fire, the story collection This Is Not Happening to You, and, early in 2024, Listening to Fish: meditations from the wet world.
- DATE: Saturday, April 27, 2024
- TIME: Doors 6:00 PM, Reading 6:30 PM, followed by Q&A and reception until 8:00 (refreshments provided)
- PLACE: Underland Gallery, 457 77th Street, Unit #1, Brooklyn, NY 11209 (sidewalk level, no stairs)
Underland Gallery, 457 77th Street, Unit #1, Brooklyn, NY 11209, btw 4th Ave and 5th Ave (ground level). Take the R Train to 77th St. & 4th Ave. Brooklyn, head east ⅔ of a block from station.
In the pipeline.
New York Writers Workshop @ Underland Gallery Reading Series
Spring 2024 -- Three Last Saturdays -- Feb 24, March 30, April 27
Spring 2024 -- Three Last Saturdays -- Feb 24, March 30, April 27
Past Readings
New York Writers Workshop @ Underland Gallery Reading Series
Spring 2024 #1 -- Saturday, Feb 24, 2024 / 6:00 PM
Spring 2024 #1 -- Saturday, Feb 24, 2024 / 6:00 PM
Pichchenda Bao is a Cambodian American poet and writer. Her work has been featured in numerous publications, exhibitions, and events. She is co-editor of the forthcoming anthology, Braving the Body (Terrapin Books). She has received fellowships and support from Aspen Words, Kundiman, Bethany Arts Community, and Queens Council on the Arts. She lives, writes and raises her three children in New York City. More at www.pichchendabao.com.
Twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Miho Kinnas is a translator, writer, and poet. She is the author of three poetry collections Today, Fish Only and Move Over, Bird, both by Math Paper Press and Waiting for Sunset to Bury Red Camellias by Free Verse Press. The poem, Three Shrimp Boats on The Horizon, was selected for Best American Poetry 2023. Also in 2023, a book of poetry collaborated with E. Ethelbert Miller, We Eclipse into the Other Side, was published by Pinyon Publishing. In addition, a rengay written with Lenard D. Moore appears in Tandem, Vol 2, No 2 and her translation in Tokyo Poetry Journal Vol 12. She writes literary essays and book reviews for journals including E-Markings, American Book Review and Literary Shanghai Alluvium. Her interview and reading recorded on Grace Cavalieri’s radio/podcast show The Poem and the Poet will have been installed at a permanent location on the moon as a part of Lunar Codex program. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the City University of Hong Kong. She is also an instructor at Writers.com, Camp Conroy, and Life-Long Learning of Hilton Head.
Vina Orden is a freelance writer and editor as well as a human rights activist based in Lenapehoking/New York City. Her writing about Filipinx culture and community has appeared in Asian Journal, The FilAm, hella pinay, Hyperallergic, The Halo-Halo Review, and The Margins. As a poetry and creative nonfiction editor at Slant'd magazine, Vina supports and amplifies the voices of emerging Asian American writers. She is working on her first novel dedicated to young Filipinxs who don’t see themselves in books and is a 2024 Roots. Wounds. Words. YA Fiction Fellow. In 2022, she participated in Tin House’s YA Workshop and was a Kweli Sing the Truth! Mentee. She was a 2022 Open City Fellow in community journalism at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, where she curated the event, "Martial Law @ 50: To Remember Is to Resist," featuring intergenerational writers, artists, and activists from the Philippines and the diaspora countering the historical erasure and revisionism of Ferdinand E. Marcos, Sr.’s fourteen-year, military-backed dictatorship in the Philippines. Social media handles and websites: @hyffeinated (on Instagram), vinaorden.com
Hosted by:
Tim Tomlinson, co-founder and director of New York Writers Workshop. Tims books are Yolanda: An Oral History in Verse (chapbook), Requiem for the Tree Fort I Set on Fire, the story collection This Is Not Happening to You, and, early in 2024, Listening to Fish: meditations from the wet world.
Underland Gallery, 457 77th Street, Unit #1, Brooklyn, NY 11209, btw 4th Ave and 5th Ave (ground level). Take the R Train to 77th St. & 4th Ave. Brooklyn, head east ⅔ of a block from station.
Twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Miho Kinnas is a translator, writer, and poet. She is the author of three poetry collections Today, Fish Only and Move Over, Bird, both by Math Paper Press and Waiting for Sunset to Bury Red Camellias by Free Verse Press. The poem, Three Shrimp Boats on The Horizon, was selected for Best American Poetry 2023. Also in 2023, a book of poetry collaborated with E. Ethelbert Miller, We Eclipse into the Other Side, was published by Pinyon Publishing. In addition, a rengay written with Lenard D. Moore appears in Tandem, Vol 2, No 2 and her translation in Tokyo Poetry Journal Vol 12. She writes literary essays and book reviews for journals including E-Markings, American Book Review and Literary Shanghai Alluvium. Her interview and reading recorded on Grace Cavalieri’s radio/podcast show The Poem and the Poet will have been installed at a permanent location on the moon as a part of Lunar Codex program. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the City University of Hong Kong. She is also an instructor at Writers.com, Camp Conroy, and Life-Long Learning of Hilton Head.
Vina Orden is a freelance writer and editor as well as a human rights activist based in Lenapehoking/New York City. Her writing about Filipinx culture and community has appeared in Asian Journal, The FilAm, hella pinay, Hyperallergic, The Halo-Halo Review, and The Margins. As a poetry and creative nonfiction editor at Slant'd magazine, Vina supports and amplifies the voices of emerging Asian American writers. She is working on her first novel dedicated to young Filipinxs who don’t see themselves in books and is a 2024 Roots. Wounds. Words. YA Fiction Fellow. In 2022, she participated in Tin House’s YA Workshop and was a Kweli Sing the Truth! Mentee. She was a 2022 Open City Fellow in community journalism at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, where she curated the event, "Martial Law @ 50: To Remember Is to Resist," featuring intergenerational writers, artists, and activists from the Philippines and the diaspora countering the historical erasure and revisionism of Ferdinand E. Marcos, Sr.’s fourteen-year, military-backed dictatorship in the Philippines. Social media handles and websites: @hyffeinated (on Instagram), vinaorden.com
Hosted by:
Tim Tomlinson, co-founder and director of New York Writers Workshop. Tims books are Yolanda: An Oral History in Verse (chapbook), Requiem for the Tree Fort I Set on Fire, the story collection This Is Not Happening to You, and, early in 2024, Listening to Fish: meditations from the wet world.
- DATE: Saturday, Feb 24, 2024
- TIME: Doors 6:00 PM, Reading 6:30 PM, followed by Q&A and reception until 8:00 (refreshments provided)
- PLACE: Underland Gallery, 457 77th Street, Unit #1, Brooklyn, NY 11209 (sidewalk level, no stairs)
Underland Gallery, 457 77th Street, Unit #1, Brooklyn, NY 11209, btw 4th Ave and 5th Ave (ground level). Take the R Train to 77th St. & 4th Ave. Brooklyn, head east ⅔ of a block from station.
New York Writers Workshop @ Underland Gallery Reading Series
Fall 2023 #3 -- Thursday, Dec 7, 2023 / 6:00 PM
Fall 2023 #3 -- Thursday, Dec 7, 2023 / 6:00 PM
Beth Raymer is the author most recently of Fireworks Every Night (Random House), which AP News calls "a bittersweet celebration of the scrappy Americans who are finding a way to survive even as the elite push humans and animals alike out of their habitats." Lay the Favorite (Spiegel & Grau), a memoir about her years in Las Vegas and her work in the sports betting industry, Head of Household: A Journal for Single Moms (Princeton Architectural Press), and the forthcoming novel. She received an M.F.A. from Columbia University and was awarded a Fulbright scholarship. Her journalism has been published in The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, and The New York Times. She lives in New York City.
Omar Musa is a Bornean-Australian author, visual artist and poet from Queanbeyan, Australia. He has released four poetry books (including Killernova), four hip-hop records, and received a standing ovation at TEDx Sydney at the Sydney Opera House. His debut novel “Here Come the Dogs” was long-listed for the International Dublin Literary Award and Miles Franklin Award and he was named one of the Sydney Morning Herald’s Young Novelists of the Year in 2015. His one-man play, “Since Ali Died”, won Best Cabaret Show at the Sydney Theatre Awards in 2018. He has had several solo exhibitions of his woodcut prints.
Ruth Danon’s fourth book of poetry, Turn Up the Heat, was published by Nirala Series in the summer of 2023. Her previous books are Word Has It (Nirala Series 2018), Limitless Tiny Boat (BlazeVOX, 2015), Triangulation from a Known Point (North Star Line, 1990), a chapbook, Living with the Fireman (Ziesing Brothers, 1980), and a book of literary criticism, Work in the English Novel (Croom-Helm, 1985), which was reissued by Routledge in 2021.
Her poetry has appeared in several anthologies, including Stronger than Fear: Poems of Compassion, Empowerment and Social Justice (Cave Moon Press, 2022), and is forthcoming in the Poetry is Bread Anthology (Nirala Publications, 2023.) Her work was selected by Robert Creeley for Best American Poetry, 2002, and has appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Florida Review, Tupelo Quarterly, BOMB, the Paris Review, Fence, the Boston Review, and many other publications in the U.S. and abroad. She has been a fellow at the Ragdale Foundation, the Corporation of Yaddo, the Ora Lerman Foundation, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. For 23 years she taught in the creative and expository writing programs that she directed for The School of Professional Studies at New York University and was founding Director of their Summer Intensive Creative Writing Workshop. Those workshops ran from 1999 to 2016. She is the founder of LIVE WRITING: A Project for the Reading, Writing, and Performance of Poetry, which has been operating since 2018.
Hosted by:
Tim Tomlinson, co-founder and director of New York Writers Workshop. Tims books are Yolanda: An Oral History in Verse (chapbook), Requiem for the Tree Fort I Set on Fire, the story collection This Is Not Happening to You, and, early in 2024, Listening to Fish: meditations from the wet world.
Underland Gallery, 457 77th Street, Unit #1, Brooklyn, NY 11209, btw 4th Ave and 5th Ave (ground level). Take the R Train to 77th St. & 4th Ave. Brooklyn, head east ⅔ of a block from station.
Omar Musa is a Bornean-Australian author, visual artist and poet from Queanbeyan, Australia. He has released four poetry books (including Killernova), four hip-hop records, and received a standing ovation at TEDx Sydney at the Sydney Opera House. His debut novel “Here Come the Dogs” was long-listed for the International Dublin Literary Award and Miles Franklin Award and he was named one of the Sydney Morning Herald’s Young Novelists of the Year in 2015. His one-man play, “Since Ali Died”, won Best Cabaret Show at the Sydney Theatre Awards in 2018. He has had several solo exhibitions of his woodcut prints.
Ruth Danon’s fourth book of poetry, Turn Up the Heat, was published by Nirala Series in the summer of 2023. Her previous books are Word Has It (Nirala Series 2018), Limitless Tiny Boat (BlazeVOX, 2015), Triangulation from a Known Point (North Star Line, 1990), a chapbook, Living with the Fireman (Ziesing Brothers, 1980), and a book of literary criticism, Work in the English Novel (Croom-Helm, 1985), which was reissued by Routledge in 2021.
Her poetry has appeared in several anthologies, including Stronger than Fear: Poems of Compassion, Empowerment and Social Justice (Cave Moon Press, 2022), and is forthcoming in the Poetry is Bread Anthology (Nirala Publications, 2023.) Her work was selected by Robert Creeley for Best American Poetry, 2002, and has appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Florida Review, Tupelo Quarterly, BOMB, the Paris Review, Fence, the Boston Review, and many other publications in the U.S. and abroad. She has been a fellow at the Ragdale Foundation, the Corporation of Yaddo, the Ora Lerman Foundation, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. For 23 years she taught in the creative and expository writing programs that she directed for The School of Professional Studies at New York University and was founding Director of their Summer Intensive Creative Writing Workshop. Those workshops ran from 1999 to 2016. She is the founder of LIVE WRITING: A Project for the Reading, Writing, and Performance of Poetry, which has been operating since 2018.
Hosted by:
Tim Tomlinson, co-founder and director of New York Writers Workshop. Tims books are Yolanda: An Oral History in Verse (chapbook), Requiem for the Tree Fort I Set on Fire, the story collection This Is Not Happening to You, and, early in 2024, Listening to Fish: meditations from the wet world.
- DATE: Thursday, Dec 7, 2023
- TIME: Doors 6:00 PM, Reading 6:30 PM, followed by Q&A and reception until 8:00 (refreshments provided)
- PLACE: Underland Gallery, 457 77th Street, Unit #1, Brooklyn, NY 11209 (sidewalk level, no stairs)
Underland Gallery, 457 77th Street, Unit #1, Brooklyn, NY 11209, btw 4th Ave and 5th Ave (ground level). Take the R Train to 77th St. & 4th Ave. Brooklyn, head east ⅔ of a block from station.
New York Writers Workshop @ Underland Gallery Reading Series
Fall 2023 #2 -- Thursday, October 19, 2023 / 6:00 PM
Fall 2023 #2 -- Thursday, October 19, 2023 / 6:00 PM
Paula Bomer is the author of the novels Tante Eva and Nine Months, and the story collection, Inside Madeleine and Baby, the latter Jonathan Franzen calling, "some of the rawest and most urgent writing I can remember encountering." Her work has appeared in Bomb, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Cut, The Literary Review, Volume 1 Brooklyn and elsewhere. She's a regular contributor to Full Stop Magazine and her forthcoming novel, The Stalker, is coming out in 2025. She grew up in South Bend, Indiana and has lived in Brooklyn for over 30 years.
Dr. Michael Datcher did his undergraduate work at UC Berkeley, his Masters at UCLA and his Ph.D. at UC Riverside in English Literature. Datcher is the author of the Ferguson-area historical novel Americus, the critically-acclaimed New York Times Bestseller Raising Fences, the children's book Harlem at Four, and the Pulitzer Prize nominee Animating Black and Brown Liberation: A Theory of American Literatures. Datcher's work often interrogates the intersection of knowledge production and social justice. Datcher is a Clinical Associate Professor of Writing at NYU.
Neva Kares Talladen is the author of the poetry chapbook, New Grace: Juvenalia, launched in July 2023. Born and raised in the Philippines, she wrote poetry and first-person pieces in English, becoming a fellow of the Baguio National Writers Workshop facilitated by the University of the Philippines. Her work was published in several literary journals and magazines, including Likhaan Journal and in the book Eros Pinoy edited by Alfred “Krip” Yuson and published by Anvil Publishing. She was also included in the digital anthology of the First Annual Festival of Women’s Poetry in November 2008 for Wompo Publishers Newspaper, edited by Virginia’s former poet laureate, Luisa Igloria. In 2020, she founded her book editing service, Otherwordy Literary, in Rockaway Beach, NYC, working with publishers like Wiley, Row House Publishing, and Spirit Bound Press. She is also the community manager of the Talking Writing literary podcast.
Hosted by:
Tim Tomlinson, co-founder and director of New York Writers Workshop. Tims books are Yolanda: An Oral History in Verse (chapbook), Requiem for the Tree Fort I Set on Fire, the story collection This Is Not Happening to You, and, early in 2024, Listening to Fish: meditations from the wet world.
Underland Gallery, 457 77th Street, Unit #1, Brooklyn, NY 11209, btw 4th Ave and 5th Ave (ground level). Take the R Train to 77th St. & 4th Ave. Brooklyn, head east ⅔ of a block from station.
Dr. Michael Datcher did his undergraduate work at UC Berkeley, his Masters at UCLA and his Ph.D. at UC Riverside in English Literature. Datcher is the author of the Ferguson-area historical novel Americus, the critically-acclaimed New York Times Bestseller Raising Fences, the children's book Harlem at Four, and the Pulitzer Prize nominee Animating Black and Brown Liberation: A Theory of American Literatures. Datcher's work often interrogates the intersection of knowledge production and social justice. Datcher is a Clinical Associate Professor of Writing at NYU.
Neva Kares Talladen is the author of the poetry chapbook, New Grace: Juvenalia, launched in July 2023. Born and raised in the Philippines, she wrote poetry and first-person pieces in English, becoming a fellow of the Baguio National Writers Workshop facilitated by the University of the Philippines. Her work was published in several literary journals and magazines, including Likhaan Journal and in the book Eros Pinoy edited by Alfred “Krip” Yuson and published by Anvil Publishing. She was also included in the digital anthology of the First Annual Festival of Women’s Poetry in November 2008 for Wompo Publishers Newspaper, edited by Virginia’s former poet laureate, Luisa Igloria. In 2020, she founded her book editing service, Otherwordy Literary, in Rockaway Beach, NYC, working with publishers like Wiley, Row House Publishing, and Spirit Bound Press. She is also the community manager of the Talking Writing literary podcast.
Hosted by:
Tim Tomlinson, co-founder and director of New York Writers Workshop. Tims books are Yolanda: An Oral History in Verse (chapbook), Requiem for the Tree Fort I Set on Fire, the story collection This Is Not Happening to You, and, early in 2024, Listening to Fish: meditations from the wet world.
- DATE: Thursday, Oct 19, 2023
- TIME: Doors 6:00 PM, Reading 6:30 PM, followed by Q&A and reception until 8:00 (refreshments provided)
- PLACE: Underland Gallery, 457 77th Street, Unit #1, Brooklyn, NY 11209 (sidewalk level, no stairs)
Underland Gallery, 457 77th Street, Unit #1, Brooklyn, NY 11209, btw 4th Ave and 5th Ave (ground level). Take the R Train to 77th St. & 4th Ave. Brooklyn, head east ⅔ of a block from station.
Murzban F. Shroff is a Mumbai-based writer. He has published his fiction with over 75 literary journals in the U.S. and UK. His stories have appeared in journals such as The Gettysburg Review, The Minnesota Review, The Saturday Evening Post, Chicago Tribune, and World Literature Today. His non-fiction has appeared in India Abroad, The New Engagement, and The American Scholar. Shroff is the recipient of the John Gilgun Fiction Award and the Bacopa Review Fiction Award 2022. He has garnered seven Pushcart Prize nominations, the highest award for the short story in the U.S. His short story collection, Breathless in Bombay, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in the best debut category from Europe and South Asia, and rated by the Guardian as among the ten best Mumbai books. His novel, Waiting for Jonathan Koshy, was a finalist for the Horatio Nelson Fiction Prize and has been published in India and China. His third book, Fasttrack Fiction, serves up a collection of literary nuggets for the digital reader. Shroff’s fourth book, Third Eye Rising, won high praise from five renowned American authors and featured on the Esquire list of Best Books of 2021. Shroff has been a speaker at several international venues, such as the London Short Story Festival (2015), the Irrawaddy Literary Festival in Myanmar (2017 and 2109), and the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature in Dubai (2019). He was invited to speak about his work at the Gandhi Memorial Center in Bethesda, the University of California Los Angeles, California State University Monterey Bay, the Institute for South Asia Studies at UC Berkeley, St. Mary’s College Moraga, the Annenberg School for Communications & Journalism at the University of Southern California, and the Rocky Mountain Modern Languages Association Convention hosted by the University of Wyoming. Shroff’s novel, Waiting for Jonathan Koshy, was published in 2022 by Astrophil Press at the University of South Dakota. He can be contacted on [email protected]
Beth Raymer is the author of Lay the Favorite (Spiegel & Grau), a memoir about her years in Las Vegas and her work in the sports betting industry, Head of Household: A Journal for Single Moms (Princeton Architectural Press), and the forthcoming novel Fireworks Every Night (Random House). She received an M.F.A. from Columbia University and was awarded a Fulbright scholarship. Her journalism has been published in The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, and The New York Times. She lives in New York City.
Hosted by:
Tim Tomlinson, co-founder and director of New York Writers Workshop. Tims books are Yolanda: An Oral History in Verse (chapbook), Requiem for the Tree Fort I Set on Fire, the story collection This Is Not Happening to You, and, forthcoming in 2023, Listening to Fish: meditations from the wet world.
Underland Gallery, 457 77th Street, Unit #1, Brooklyn, NY 11209, btw 4th Ave and 5th Ave (ground level). Take the R Train to 77th St. & 4th Ave. Brooklyn, head east ⅔ of a block from station.
Beth Raymer is the author of Lay the Favorite (Spiegel & Grau), a memoir about her years in Las Vegas and her work in the sports betting industry, Head of Household: A Journal for Single Moms (Princeton Architectural Press), and the forthcoming novel Fireworks Every Night (Random House). She received an M.F.A. from Columbia University and was awarded a Fulbright scholarship. Her journalism has been published in The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, and The New York Times. She lives in New York City.
Hosted by:
Tim Tomlinson, co-founder and director of New York Writers Workshop. Tims books are Yolanda: An Oral History in Verse (chapbook), Requiem for the Tree Fort I Set on Fire, the story collection This Is Not Happening to You, and, forthcoming in 2023, Listening to Fish: meditations from the wet world.
- DATE: Thursday, Sept 21, 2023
- TIME: Doors 6:00 PM, Reading 6:30 PM, followed by Q&A and reception until 8:00 (refreshments provided)
- PLACE: Underland Gallery, 457 77th Street, Unit #1, Brooklyn, NY 11209 (sidewalk level, no stairs)
Underland Gallery, 457 77th Street, Unit #1, Brooklyn, NY 11209, btw 4th Ave and 5th Ave (ground level). Take the R Train to 77th St. & 4th Ave. Brooklyn, head east ⅔ of a block from station.
Claudia Serea is a Romanian-born poet with poems and translations published in Field, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, The Puritan, Oxford Poetry, and elsewhere. She is the author of seven poetry collections, most recently In Those Years, No One Slept (Broadstone Books, 2023) and Writing on the Walls at Night (Unsolicited Press, 2022). Serea won the Joanne Scott Kennedy Memorial Prize from the Poetry Society of Virginia, the New Letters Readers Award, and the Franklin-Christoph Award. This year, her poem “Making Sausage in the Time of Revolution,” published last year by Consequence, has won a Pushcart Prize. Her poems have been translated in French, Italian, Russian, Arabic, and Farsi, and featured on The Writer’s Almanac. She is a founding editor of National Translation Month, serves on the board of The Red Wheelbarrow Poets, and co-hosts their monthly readings.
Chris Campanioni was born in Manhattan in 1985 and grew up in a very nineties New Jersey. The son of exiles from Cuba and Poland, Chris is a writer, multimedia artist, and instructor. He is a recipient of the International Latino Book Award for his debut novel, Going Down (Aignos, 2013), the Pushcart Prize for a selection of his cross-genre collection Death of Art (C&R Press, 2016), and the Academy of American Poets College Prize. His essays, poetry, and fiction have been translated into Spanish and Portuguese, and have found a home in several venues, including Best American Essays (HarperCollins, 2022), BOMB, Catapult, Social Text, Los Angeles Review of Books, American Poetry Review, Fence, Ambit, Nat. Brut, Kenyon Review, Denver Quarterly, Gulf Coast, Tupelo Press Quarterly, Hayden’s Ferry Review, 3:AM Magazine, DIAGRAM, Poetry International, Prelude, RHINO, Gorse, and other journals, anthologies, and edited volumes, including Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era (Routledge, 2019), Manticore: Hybrid Writing from Hybrid Identities (Sundress, 2019), Open House: Conversations with Writers About Community (Tupelo Press, 2023) Migration, Dislocation and Movement on Screen (Berghahn Books, 2023), and Transmedia Selves: Identity and Persona Creation in the Age of Mobile and Multiplatform Media (Routledge, 2023). His translations have been published in Beginnings of the Prose Poem: All Over The Place (Commonwealth Books, 2021), his multimedia work has been exhibited at the New York Academy of Art, and the film adaptation of his poem This body’s long (& I’m still loading) was in the official selection at the Canadian International Film Festival. From 2016 until 2021, he edited PANK and PANK Books, launching PANK’s Folio series in 2019 and its translation imprint, Transmission, in 2021. He is a Visiting Lecturer in the English department at Baruch College.
Sarah Sarai holds an MFA in fiction from Sarah Lawrence College. Of her most recent poetry collection, That Strapless Bra in Heaven (Kelsay Books, 2019), Dennis Nurske wrote, “A visionary who can’t quite keep a straight face, a prophet quicker to laughter than judgment, Sarai is a virtuoso of the one-liner — “too much is as it seems” — but she works with a vast cultural canvas, and sorrow and a thirst for the real underlie, the scintillating eloquence.” She is also author of the poetry collections The Future Is Happy (BlazeVOX[books] and Geographies of Soul and Taffeta (Indolent Books). Sarah splits her soul between New York and California.
Hosted by:
Tim Tomlinson, co-founder and director of New York Writers Workshop. Tims books are Yolanda: An Oral History in Verse (chapbook), Requiem for the Tree Fort I Set on Fire, the story collection This Is Not Happening to You, and, forthcoming in 2023, Listening to Fish: meditations from the wet world.
Underland Gallery, 457 77th Street, Unit #1, Brooklyn, NY 11209, btw 4th Ave and 5th Ave (ground level). Take the R Train to 77th St. & 4th Ave. Brooklyn, head east ⅔ of a block from station.
Chris Campanioni was born in Manhattan in 1985 and grew up in a very nineties New Jersey. The son of exiles from Cuba and Poland, Chris is a writer, multimedia artist, and instructor. He is a recipient of the International Latino Book Award for his debut novel, Going Down (Aignos, 2013), the Pushcart Prize for a selection of his cross-genre collection Death of Art (C&R Press, 2016), and the Academy of American Poets College Prize. His essays, poetry, and fiction have been translated into Spanish and Portuguese, and have found a home in several venues, including Best American Essays (HarperCollins, 2022), BOMB, Catapult, Social Text, Los Angeles Review of Books, American Poetry Review, Fence, Ambit, Nat. Brut, Kenyon Review, Denver Quarterly, Gulf Coast, Tupelo Press Quarterly, Hayden’s Ferry Review, 3:AM Magazine, DIAGRAM, Poetry International, Prelude, RHINO, Gorse, and other journals, anthologies, and edited volumes, including Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era (Routledge, 2019), Manticore: Hybrid Writing from Hybrid Identities (Sundress, 2019), Open House: Conversations with Writers About Community (Tupelo Press, 2023) Migration, Dislocation and Movement on Screen (Berghahn Books, 2023), and Transmedia Selves: Identity and Persona Creation in the Age of Mobile and Multiplatform Media (Routledge, 2023). His translations have been published in Beginnings of the Prose Poem: All Over The Place (Commonwealth Books, 2021), his multimedia work has been exhibited at the New York Academy of Art, and the film adaptation of his poem This body’s long (& I’m still loading) was in the official selection at the Canadian International Film Festival. From 2016 until 2021, he edited PANK and PANK Books, launching PANK’s Folio series in 2019 and its translation imprint, Transmission, in 2021. He is a Visiting Lecturer in the English department at Baruch College.
Sarah Sarai holds an MFA in fiction from Sarah Lawrence College. Of her most recent poetry collection, That Strapless Bra in Heaven (Kelsay Books, 2019), Dennis Nurske wrote, “A visionary who can’t quite keep a straight face, a prophet quicker to laughter than judgment, Sarai is a virtuoso of the one-liner — “too much is as it seems” — but she works with a vast cultural canvas, and sorrow and a thirst for the real underlie, the scintillating eloquence.” She is also author of the poetry collections The Future Is Happy (BlazeVOX[books] and Geographies of Soul and Taffeta (Indolent Books). Sarah splits her soul between New York and California.
Hosted by:
Tim Tomlinson, co-founder and director of New York Writers Workshop. Tims books are Yolanda: An Oral History in Verse (chapbook), Requiem for the Tree Fort I Set on Fire, the story collection This Is Not Happening to You, and, forthcoming in 2023, Listening to Fish: meditations from the wet world.
- DATE: Thursday, June 8, 2023
- TIME: Doors 6:00 PM, Reading 6:30 PM, followed by Q&A and reception until 8:00 (refreshments provided)
- PLACE: Underland Gallery, 457 77th Street, Unit #1, Brooklyn, NY 11209 (sidewalk level, no stairs)
Underland Gallery, 457 77th Street, Unit #1, Brooklyn, NY 11209, btw 4th Ave and 5th Ave (ground level). Take the R Train to 77th St. & 4th Ave. Brooklyn, head east ⅔ of a block from station.
New York Writers Workshop @ Underland Gallery Reading Series, #5 -- Thursday, May 18, 2023 / 6:00 PM
Terence Degnan is the author of three books, including his most recent, I Can Wonder Anything. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter.
Jen Fitzgerald’s essays, poetry, and photography has been featured widely, over the past decade, in venues such as PBS Newshour, Tin House, Boston Review, NER, Colorado Review among others. Her first collection of poetry, The Art of Work, was published by Noemi Press in September of 2016. As a community activist, she has hosted free-for-the-community Grassroots Workshops, created spaces for the literary community to organize outside of academia and around issues of representation in publishing as Count Director for The VIDA Count and with the National Writer’s Union to organize at AWP, as well as starting the campaign for Staten Island to name its first ever Poet Laureate. She works with Prison Writes to bring writing & literacy workshops to incarcerated youth and adults on Rikers Island and other jails/institutions around NYC. Her new work seeks to bridge the connective gaps left in language while engaging larger concepts of solidarity, singularity, and ascension.
Joanna Solfrian’s 2009 collection, Visible Heavens, received the Wick First Book Poetry Prize, judged by Naomi Shihab Nye. Her second collection, The Mud Room, came out in 2020 from MadHat Press. In March of 2021, Finishing Line Press published a chapbook of ghazals called The Second Perfect Number. Her poems have appeared in journals such as The Harvard Review, Boulevard, Image, Spoon River Poetry Review, Margie, Rattapallax, The Southern Review, and Pleiades. Solfrian has taught writing at the University of Hartford, Souther CT State University, and has guest-lectured in various high school, undergraduate, and graduate creative writing programs. Currently, she lives and works in New York City.
Hosted by:
Tim Tomlinson, co-founder and director of New York Writers Workshop. Tims books are Yolanda: An Oral History in Verse (chapbook), Requiem for the Tree Fort I Set on Fire, the story collection This Is Not Happening to You, and, forthcoming in 2023, Listening to Fish: meditations from the wet world.
Terence Degnan is the author of three books, including his most recent, I Can Wonder Anything. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter.
Jen Fitzgerald’s essays, poetry, and photography has been featured widely, over the past decade, in venues such as PBS Newshour, Tin House, Boston Review, NER, Colorado Review among others. Her first collection of poetry, The Art of Work, was published by Noemi Press in September of 2016. As a community activist, she has hosted free-for-the-community Grassroots Workshops, created spaces for the literary community to organize outside of academia and around issues of representation in publishing as Count Director for The VIDA Count and with the National Writer’s Union to organize at AWP, as well as starting the campaign for Staten Island to name its first ever Poet Laureate. She works with Prison Writes to bring writing & literacy workshops to incarcerated youth and adults on Rikers Island and other jails/institutions around NYC. Her new work seeks to bridge the connective gaps left in language while engaging larger concepts of solidarity, singularity, and ascension.
Joanna Solfrian’s 2009 collection, Visible Heavens, received the Wick First Book Poetry Prize, judged by Naomi Shihab Nye. Her second collection, The Mud Room, came out in 2020 from MadHat Press. In March of 2021, Finishing Line Press published a chapbook of ghazals called The Second Perfect Number. Her poems have appeared in journals such as The Harvard Review, Boulevard, Image, Spoon River Poetry Review, Margie, Rattapallax, The Southern Review, and Pleiades. Solfrian has taught writing at the University of Hartford, Souther CT State University, and has guest-lectured in various high school, undergraduate, and graduate creative writing programs. Currently, she lives and works in New York City.
Hosted by:
Tim Tomlinson, co-founder and director of New York Writers Workshop. Tims books are Yolanda: An Oral History in Verse (chapbook), Requiem for the Tree Fort I Set on Fire, the story collection This Is Not Happening to You, and, forthcoming in 2023, Listening to Fish: meditations from the wet world.
New York Writers Workshop @ Underland Gallery Reading Series, #4 -- Thursday, April 13, 2023 Stephen Policoff's 1st novel, Beautiful Somewhere Else, won the James Jones Award and was published by Carroll & Graf in 2004. His 2nd novel, Come Away, won the Dzanc Award and was published by Dzanc Books in 2014. His 3rd novel, Dangerous Blues, was published by Flexible Press in November 2022. He is Clinical Professor of Writing in Global Liberal Studies at NYU, where he has taught almost since time began.
Deedle Rodriguez Tomlinson was born and raised in the Philippines. Her work has appeared in the Silliman University Journal, TOMÁS: the Journal of the University of Santo Tomas Center for Creative Writing and Literary Studies, The Incompleteness Book Volumes I & II of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP), and in Wonderlust Travel. Recently, her short story, “The Babaylan,” appeared in Mom Egg Review. where it was nominated for the PEN/Robert J. Dau Prize for Emerging Writers. Tim Tomlinson is the author of the chapbook Yolanda: An Oral History in Verse, the poetry collection, Requiem for the Tree Fort I Set on Fire, and the short story collection, This Is Not Happening to You. Recent work appears in Live Encounters, Men Matters Online Journal, Tin Can Literary Review, and the anthology, Surviving Suicide: A Collection of Poems that May Save a Life. A new collection, Listening to Fish: meditations from the wet world, will appear on Nirala books later this year. Tim is the director of New York Writers Workshop, and co-author of its popular text, The Portable MFA in Creative Writing. He teaches writing in NYU’s Global Liberal Studies. |
New York Writers Workshop @ Underland Gallery Reading Series, #3 -- Saturday, Nov 19, 2022
Indran Amirthanayagam produced a “world record” in 2020 publishing three poetry collections written in three different languages. He writes in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Haitian Creole. He has published twenty two poetry books, including Isleño (R.I.L. Editores), Blue Window (translated by Jennifer Rathbun) (Diálogos Books), Ten Thousand Steps Against the Tyrant (BroadstoneBooks.com), The Migrant States, Coconuts on Mars, The Elephants of Reckoning (winner 1994 Paterson Poetry Prize), Uncivil War and The Splintered Face: Tsunami Poems. In music, he recorded Rankont Dout. He edits the Beltway Poetry Quarterly (www.beltwaypoetry.com); writes https://indranamirthanayagam.blogspot.com; writes a weekly poem for Haiti en Marche and El Acento; has received fellowships from the Foundation for the Contemporary Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, The US/Mexico Fund for Culture and the Macdowell Colony. He is the IFLAC Word Poeta Mundial 2022. In 2021 he won an Emergent Seed grant. His poem “ Free Bird” has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Hosts The Poetry Channel https://youtube.com/user/indranam. New books, including Powèt nan po la (Poet of the Port ) and Origami: Selected Poems of Manuel Ulacia will be published by early 2023. Indran publishes poetry books with Sara Cahill Marron at Beltway Editions (www.beltwayeditions.com).
Robin Hemley has published fifteen books of fiction and nonfiction. His most recent books are the autofiction, Oblivion, An After-Autobiography (Gold Wake, 2022), The Art and Craft of Asian Stories: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology, co-authored with Xu Xi (Bloomsbury, 2021) and Borderline Citizen: Dispatches from the Outskirts of Nationhood (Nebraska, 2020, Penguin SE Asia, 2021). He has previously published four collections of short stories, and his stories have been widely anthologized. His widely-used writing text, Turning Life into Fiction, has sold over a hundred thousand copies and has been in print for 25 years. His work has been published and translated widely and he has received such awards as a Guggenheim Fellowship, a fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation, three Pushcart Prizes in both nonfiction and fiction, The Nelson Algren Award for Fiction, The Independent Press Book Award for Memoir, among others. His short stories have been featured several times on NPR’s “Selected Shorts” and his essays and short stories have appeared in such journals as Creative Nonfiction, Conjunctions, Guernica, The Iowa Review, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Chicago Tribune, and many others. He is the Founder of the international nonfiction conference, NonfictioNOW and was the director of the Nonfiction Writing Program at The University of Iowa for nine years, inaugural director of The Writers’ Centre at Yale-NUS, Singapore, and is a graduate of The Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He is Inaugural Director of the Polk School of Communications at Long Island University-Brooklyn, Co-Director of the MFA in Creative Writing, Parsons Family Chair in Creative Writing, and University Professor. He has had artist residencies at The Bellagio Center at Lake Como, The Bogliasco Foundation, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the MacDowell Colony, and others. He is co-editor with Leila Philip of Speculative Nonfiction and co-founder of Authors at Large with Xu Xi.
Sara Cahill Marron, native Virginian and Long Island resident, is the author of Reasons for the Long Tu’m (Broadstone Books, 2018), Nothing You Build Here, Belongs Here (Kelsay Books 2021), and Call Me Spes (MadHat Press 2022). She is the Associate Editor of Beltway Poetry Quarterly and publisher at Beltway Editions. Her work has been published widely in literary magazines and journals; a full list is available here. Sara also hosts virtual readings for Beltway Poetry Quarterly with her partner in poetry, Indran Amirthanayagam and teaches poetry in modern discourse programs for teens at the public library in Patchogue, NY. She is periodically available for editing projects and specializes in creative fiction and poetry. Please contact her at [email protected] to start a conversation.
Yuyutsu Ram Dass Sharma is a world renowned Himalayan poet and translator. He has published ten poetry collections including: The Second Buddha Walk, A Blizzard in my Bones: New York Poems, Quaking Cantos: Nepal Earthquake Poems, Nepal Trilogy, Space Cake, Amsterdam and Annapurna Poems. Three books of his poetry, Poemes de l’ Himalayas (L’Harmattan, Paris), Poemas de Los Himalayas (Cosmopoeticia, Cordoba, Spain) and Jezero Fewa & Konj (Sodobnost International) have appeared in French, Spanish and Slovenian respectively. In addition, Eternal Snow: A Worldwide Anthology of One Hundred Twenty-Five Poetic Intersections with Himalayan Poet Yuyutsu RD Sharma has also appeared. He has read his works at several prestigious places including Poetry Café, London, Seamus Heaney Center for Poetry, Belfast, New York University, New York, The Kring, Amsterdam, P.E.N, Paris, and many others. His works have appeared in Poetry Review, Chanrdrabhaga, Sodobnost, Mudfish, Amsterdam Weekly, Indian Literature, Rattapallax, Irish Pages, Drunken Boat, Califragile, Delo, Modern Poetry in Translation, Exiled Ink, Iton77, Little Magazine, The Telegraph, Indian Express and Asiaweek. The Library of Congress nominated his book of Nepali translations entitled Roaring Recitals; Five Nepali Poets as Best Book of the Year 2001 from Asia under the Program, A World of Books International Perspectives. Yuyutsu’s own work has been translated into German, French, Italian, Slovenian, Hebrew, Spanish and Dutch. He has published his nonfiction, Annapurnas & Stains of Blood: Life, Travel and Writing a Page of Snow, (Nirala, 2010). Half the year, he travels and reads and conducts Creative Writing workshops all over the world. Back home, he goes trekking in the Himalayas. Currently, Yuyutsu Sharma edits Pratik: A Quarterly Magazine of Contemporary Writing.
Indran Amirthanayagam produced a “world record” in 2020 publishing three poetry collections written in three different languages. He writes in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Haitian Creole. He has published twenty two poetry books, including Isleño (R.I.L. Editores), Blue Window (translated by Jennifer Rathbun) (Diálogos Books), Ten Thousand Steps Against the Tyrant (BroadstoneBooks.com), The Migrant States, Coconuts on Mars, The Elephants of Reckoning (winner 1994 Paterson Poetry Prize), Uncivil War and The Splintered Face: Tsunami Poems. In music, he recorded Rankont Dout. He edits the Beltway Poetry Quarterly (www.beltwaypoetry.com); writes https://indranamirthanayagam.blogspot.com; writes a weekly poem for Haiti en Marche and El Acento; has received fellowships from the Foundation for the Contemporary Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, The US/Mexico Fund for Culture and the Macdowell Colony. He is the IFLAC Word Poeta Mundial 2022. In 2021 he won an Emergent Seed grant. His poem “ Free Bird” has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Hosts The Poetry Channel https://youtube.com/user/indranam. New books, including Powèt nan po la (Poet of the Port ) and Origami: Selected Poems of Manuel Ulacia will be published by early 2023. Indran publishes poetry books with Sara Cahill Marron at Beltway Editions (www.beltwayeditions.com).
Robin Hemley has published fifteen books of fiction and nonfiction. His most recent books are the autofiction, Oblivion, An After-Autobiography (Gold Wake, 2022), The Art and Craft of Asian Stories: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology, co-authored with Xu Xi (Bloomsbury, 2021) and Borderline Citizen: Dispatches from the Outskirts of Nationhood (Nebraska, 2020, Penguin SE Asia, 2021). He has previously published four collections of short stories, and his stories have been widely anthologized. His widely-used writing text, Turning Life into Fiction, has sold over a hundred thousand copies and has been in print for 25 years. His work has been published and translated widely and he has received such awards as a Guggenheim Fellowship, a fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation, three Pushcart Prizes in both nonfiction and fiction, The Nelson Algren Award for Fiction, The Independent Press Book Award for Memoir, among others. His short stories have been featured several times on NPR’s “Selected Shorts” and his essays and short stories have appeared in such journals as Creative Nonfiction, Conjunctions, Guernica, The Iowa Review, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Chicago Tribune, and many others. He is the Founder of the international nonfiction conference, NonfictioNOW and was the director of the Nonfiction Writing Program at The University of Iowa for nine years, inaugural director of The Writers’ Centre at Yale-NUS, Singapore, and is a graduate of The Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He is Inaugural Director of the Polk School of Communications at Long Island University-Brooklyn, Co-Director of the MFA in Creative Writing, Parsons Family Chair in Creative Writing, and University Professor. He has had artist residencies at The Bellagio Center at Lake Como, The Bogliasco Foundation, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the MacDowell Colony, and others. He is co-editor with Leila Philip of Speculative Nonfiction and co-founder of Authors at Large with Xu Xi.
Sara Cahill Marron, native Virginian and Long Island resident, is the author of Reasons for the Long Tu’m (Broadstone Books, 2018), Nothing You Build Here, Belongs Here (Kelsay Books 2021), and Call Me Spes (MadHat Press 2022). She is the Associate Editor of Beltway Poetry Quarterly and publisher at Beltway Editions. Her work has been published widely in literary magazines and journals; a full list is available here. Sara also hosts virtual readings for Beltway Poetry Quarterly with her partner in poetry, Indran Amirthanayagam and teaches poetry in modern discourse programs for teens at the public library in Patchogue, NY. She is periodically available for editing projects and specializes in creative fiction and poetry. Please contact her at [email protected] to start a conversation.
Yuyutsu Ram Dass Sharma is a world renowned Himalayan poet and translator. He has published ten poetry collections including: The Second Buddha Walk, A Blizzard in my Bones: New York Poems, Quaking Cantos: Nepal Earthquake Poems, Nepal Trilogy, Space Cake, Amsterdam and Annapurna Poems. Three books of his poetry, Poemes de l’ Himalayas (L’Harmattan, Paris), Poemas de Los Himalayas (Cosmopoeticia, Cordoba, Spain) and Jezero Fewa & Konj (Sodobnost International) have appeared in French, Spanish and Slovenian respectively. In addition, Eternal Snow: A Worldwide Anthology of One Hundred Twenty-Five Poetic Intersections with Himalayan Poet Yuyutsu RD Sharma has also appeared. He has read his works at several prestigious places including Poetry Café, London, Seamus Heaney Center for Poetry, Belfast, New York University, New York, The Kring, Amsterdam, P.E.N, Paris, and many others. His works have appeared in Poetry Review, Chanrdrabhaga, Sodobnost, Mudfish, Amsterdam Weekly, Indian Literature, Rattapallax, Irish Pages, Drunken Boat, Califragile, Delo, Modern Poetry in Translation, Exiled Ink, Iton77, Little Magazine, The Telegraph, Indian Express and Asiaweek. The Library of Congress nominated his book of Nepali translations entitled Roaring Recitals; Five Nepali Poets as Best Book of the Year 2001 from Asia under the Program, A World of Books International Perspectives. Yuyutsu’s own work has been translated into German, French, Italian, Slovenian, Hebrew, Spanish and Dutch. He has published his nonfiction, Annapurnas & Stains of Blood: Life, Travel and Writing a Page of Snow, (Nirala, 2010). Half the year, he travels and reads and conducts Creative Writing workshops all over the world. Back home, he goes trekking in the Himalayas. Currently, Yuyutsu Sharma edits Pratik: A Quarterly Magazine of Contemporary Writing.
New York Writers Workshop @ Underland Gallery Reading Series, #2 -- Saturday, Oct 22, 2022
NYWW @ UG is a monthly reading series featuring some of the region's, the nation's, and the world's most significant writers, presenting their work and taking your questions in the charming space of Brooklyn's Underland Gallery, located in Bay Ridge at 457 77th Street. For our second reading in the series, we present:
Troy Jollimore is the author of four books and poetry and three books of philosophy, as well as numerous articles, essays, and reviews. His first collection of poetry, Tom Thomson in Purgatory, won the National Book Critics Circle award in 2006. His third, Syllabus of Errors, appeared on the New York Times’ list of best books of poetry published in 2015. His poems have appeared in publications including the New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, McSweeney’s, the New England Review, Tin House, and The Best American Poetry 2020. His essays have been published in venues including Conjunctions, the Kenyon Review, Zyzzyva, and the New York Times Book Review, and he is a frequen book reviewer for publications including the Chicago Tribune and the Washington Post. In 2013 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in poetry. He has also received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Stanford Humantiies Center in Palo Alto, California. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Princeton, he is currently a Professor in the Philosophy Department at California State University, Chico. His fourth book of poems, Earthly Delights, was published in 2021, and he is currently editing a collection of new scholarly articles on loyalty for Oxford University Press’s The Virtues series.
Arundhathi Subramaniam is the award-winning author of thirteen books of poetry and prose, including the recent poetry volume, Love Without a Story, and a book of essays on contemporary women on sacred journeys, Women Who Wear Only Themselves. Her other work includes the acclaimed sacred poetry anthology, Eating God and the bestelling biogrpahy of a mystic, Sadhguru: More Than a Life. A well-known prose writer on Indian spirituality, she has been a long-standing arts critic, anthologist, performing arts curator, and poetry editor. She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including the Sahitya Akadmi Award, the inaugural Khushwant Singh Prize, the Raza Award for Poetry, the Zee Women’s Award for Literature, the International Piero Bigongiari Prize in Italy, the Mystic Kalinga award, the Charles Wallace, Visiting Arts, and Homi Bhabha Fellowships, among others. She has written extensively on culture and spirituality, and has worked over the years as poetry editor, cultural curator, and critic.
Jee Leong Koh is the author of Steep Tea (Carcanet), named a Best Book of the Year by the UK’s Financial Times and a Finalist by Lambda Literary in the USA. His hybrid work of fiction, Snow at 5 PM: Translations of an insignificant Japanese poet won the Singapore Literature Prize in English fiction. He has also published Payday Loans (Poets Wear Prada Press and Math Paper Press); Equal to the Earth (Bench Press); Seven Studies for a Self Portrait (Bench Press); Connor & Seal (Sibling Rivalry), and The Pillow Book (Math Paper Press and Awai Books), both shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize. His work has been translated into Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Malay, Russian, and Latvian. His second Carcanet collection, Inspector Inspector, was released in the UK in August 2022, and appears in the US in October 2022. Jee lives in New York City. He is the founder of the literary non-profit Singapore Unbound, which organizes the biennial Singapore Literature Festival in New York City and the monthly Second Saturdays Reading Series, and publishes original works of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, artist interviews, and book reviews in its journal SUSPECT and its press, Gaudy Boy. Contact Jee at [email protected].