Offsite Reading at AWP
I will be reading with the wonderful people pictured above (Leslie Ann Murray, Maia Morgan, An Li, Aiden Angle, Joshua Irwin-Salinas, Andy Gallagher and Susanna Velarde Covarrubias) at an offsite reading at AWP 2018. It will be on Wednesday, a perfect opportunity to make new friends right in the beginning of the conference (we are a friendly bunch. You don’t have to wonder the book fair corridors alone!). It would also be great to catch up with my lovely friends there before things get hectic and I lose my ability to track any sort of schedule. Join us for an evening of much hanging out and also a little reading. (Ps. Obvs, affiliation with our beloved MFA program not required. All welcome). See you at #awptampa #awp18offsite
Readers:
Aiden Angle is a current MFA candidate at Rutgers University, Newark. He has a B.A. in Psychology, with a minor in Creative Writing, and a concentration in human development. He has worked as a counselor in community mental health for individuals with intellectual disabilities, as well as severe mental illness. He’s the drummer for the band Moonspeaker and his poems have appeared in HEArt Online, Rogue Agent, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, Pittsburgh City Paper Chapter & Verse, and Misfit Magazine.
Susanna Velarde Covarrubias is a poet, playwright, and performer. A proud daughter of Mexican immigrants, she works to accent the diversity of the Latinx experience. She has traveled across México, Europe, Cuba, and Morocco, where she studied Arabic through a scholarship for Peace and Diplomacy. She earned a B.A. in French, a B.A. in Spanish, and a Certificate in Translation from Arizona State University, where she also pursued graduate coursework in Literary Translation. Susanna is a 2017 alum of VONA/Voices as well as of the Fornés Playwriting Workshop in Chicago. She is a first-year poet at Rutgers-Newark.
Andy Gallagher is an MFA candidate in fiction at Rutgers University-Newark. He earned a BA in English and Secondary Education from The College of New Jersey, where he also received the Peter Wood Award for his fiction. His stories and poems appear in The Rectangle and Glass Mountain. In his spare time, he enjoys backpacking, cycling, and shooting pool at dive bars. He lives in Jersey City, NJ.
Joshua Irwin-Salinas is a 26-year-old writer pursuing his MFA in Fiction at Rutgers Newark. He has recently worked as an operations manager, bike courier, bartender, trade-executor, and salesperson. His writing is influenced by the Internet of Things, hip-hop, and identity conflicts. He is from Northern California, and based in New York City.
An Li is from Northern Virginia and graduated from Johns Hopkins University, receiving B.A.’s in Biophysics and Writing Seminars. They are currently working on a collection of food poems, delving into relationships between their culture, family, and queerness. They are a first-year poet at Rutgers-Newark.
Ananda Lima’s work has appeared or is upcoming in The American Poetry Review, Rattle, Hobart, The Offing, PANK, New South, The Collagist and elsewhere. She has an MA in Linguistics from UCLA and is pursuing an MFA in fiction at Rutgers University, Newark. Ananda has taught at UCLA, Montclair State University and Rutgers University, Newark. She is working on a poetry collection centered on immigration and motherhood and a novel set in Brasília, where she grew up as the daughter of migrants from Northeast Brazil.
Maia Morgan has written poetry, plays, essays and fiction, and she has taught writing and theater in schools, health care facilities and jails. Her writing has appeared, among other places, in Glamour, Creative Nonfiction, The Rumpus and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. She is an MFA candidate in fiction at Rutgers University-Newark, and she lives in Jersey City with her fiancée, Erin, and a rather eccentric dog and cat.
Leslie Ann Murray is a fiction writer from Trinidad and Tobago. She’s currently living in Paris, where she’s working on her first short story collection. Besides writing, she’s a smoothie enthusiast, avid runner, and part-time Buddhist.
