Thursday, March 30, 2017

April 15th Readings: Emily Cementina, Carys Davies, Meghan Kenny, and Elise Levine

Emily Cementina received her M.F.A. in fiction from The New School. She teaches first-year writing and literature at CUNY and is a co-host of Sunday Salon, a monthly reading series in New York City. Having finished the most recent draft of her novel, she has taken a break to receive her teaching certification in vinyasa yoga. She looks forward to revising with a new perspective. You can find her work online at fwriction: review.
Carys Davies is the author of two collections of short stories, The Redemption of Galen Pike and Some New Ambush. She is the winner of the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize, the Royal Society of Literature’s V.S. Pritchett Memorial Prize, the Society of Authors’ Olive Cook Short Story Award, a Northern Writers’ Award, and is currently a 2016-2017 Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library. The Redemption of Galen Pike is an IndieNext pick for April 2017. Born in Wales, she usually lives in north-west England
Meghan Kenny is the author of the debut short story collection Love Is No Small Thing (LSU Press, 2017). Her debut novel, The Driest Season, is forthcoming with W.W. Norton in 2018. She has won The Iowa Review Award, has been a scholar at the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences, and held the Tickner Writing Fellowship in Baltimore. She lives and teaches in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Elise Levine is the author of the story collection Driving Men Mad, and the novels Requests and Dedications and Blue Field. Her work has also appeared in Ploughshares, Blackbird, PANK, The Journey Prize Anthology, the Toronto Star, and Best Canadian Stories, among other publications. She is the recipient of a Canadian National Magazine Award for fiction; awards from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council; and residency fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo, among others. She currently lives in Baltimore, MD, where she directs the MA in Writing program at Johns Hopkins University.

Readings begin at 7:30 pm, Bird in Hand Coffee Shop, 11 E. 33rd Street, Baltimore. 410-243-0757

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