Reading at Montclair State University
Can’t wait to read as part of the wonderful Live Lit reading series with Kem Joy Ukwu again!
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Live Literature opens our Spring 2017 season on Wednesday, January 31 at 1:00 in the Kasser Theater Lobby!
We’re thrilled to welcome fiction writer Kem Joy Ukwu and poet and fiction writer Ananda Lima. This reading is in celebration of Peak Performances’ Ink, which runs from February 1-4 in the Kasser Theater; while you’re at the Kasser, you can reserve your tickets!
Kem Joy Ukwu’s fiction has appeared in PANK, BLACKBERRY: a magazine, Carve, TINGE, Blue Lake Review, Jabberwock Review, Auburn Avenue, The Brooklyn Quarterly and Day One. Her short story collection manuscript, Locked Gray / Linked Blue, was selected as a finalist for the 2016 New American Fiction Prize and is forthcoming from Brain Mill Press in February of 2018. She led a workshop as an Institute Scholar in the 2016 Writing from the Margins Institute at Bloomfield College and will return to the same institute in March of 2018. Born and raised in the Bronx, she currently lives in New Jersey with her husband. More of her work can be found at kemjoyukwu.com.
Ananda Lima’s work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Rattle, PANK, The Offing, Sugar House Review and elsewhere. She has an MA in Linguistics from UCLA and is pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing from Rutgers University – Newark. She was selected for the AWP Writer to Writer program and has attended workshops at Bread Loaf, Tin House, the Community of Writers and Sewanee, where she currently serves as staff. Ananda has taught languages and linguistics at Montclair State University and UCLA and currently teaches undergraduate Creative Writing at Rutgers-Newark. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and their son.
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