Program
I.
Welcome by Andy Gallagher
Reading by Allison Albino
Ananda Lima reading from Mother/land
Intermission
II.
Reading by Như Xuân Nguyễn
Reading by KC Trommer
Tracy Fuad reads form about:blank
Bios
Book Launch Authors:
Tracy Fuad is the author of about:blank, chosen by Claudia Rankine as the 2020 winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize and forthcoming in October from the University of Pittsburgh Press. She is a graduate of the Rutgers-Newark MFA Program and a 2021-22 Poetry Fellow at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and teaches poetry at the Berlin Writers’ Workshop.
Ananda Lima’s poetry collection Mother/land (Black Lawrence Press, 2021) is the winner of the Hudson Prize and was shortlisted for The Chicago Review of Books Chirby Awards. She is also the author of four chapbooks: Tropicália (Newfound, 2021), Amblyopia (Bull City Press, 2020), Translation (Paper Nautilus, 2019), and Vigil (Get Fresh Books, forthcoming). Her work has appeared in the American Poetry Review, Poets.org, Kenyon Review Online, Pleiades, Gulf Coast, and elsewhere. She has been awarded the inaugural Work-In-Progress Fellowship by Latinx-in-Publishing, sponsored by Macmillan Publishers, for her fiction manuscript-in-progress. She has an MA in Linguistics from UCLA and an MFA in Creative Writing in Fiction from Rutgers University, Newark. anandalima.com/links/
Presenter:
Andy Gallagher is a writer and teacher based in Jersey City, NJ. He has taught middle school English for several years, and currently teaches eighth grade. He has been a resident at Art Farm and he holds an MFA in fiction from Rutgers University-Newark.
Readers:
Allison Albino is a Filipina-American poet and French teacher who lives and writes in Harlem. Her work has either appeared or is forthcoming in Narrative, The Rumpus, The Lantern Review, Poetry Northwest, The Oxford Review of Books, The Alaska Quarterly Review and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from The Community of Writers, The Fine Arts Work Center, and Tin House. She studied creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College and has an M.A. in French literature from NYU. She teaches at The Dalton School in New York City.
Như Xuân Nguyễn is a queer and trans Vietnamese American poet and writer. A Kundiman Fellow and a graduate of the MFA program in Creative Writing at Rutgers-Newark, she won the 2018 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship with her chapbook A System of Satellites. Her work has appeared in Poem-a-Day, The Offing, DELUGE (Radioactive Moat), The Journal, The Shade Journal, and Juked. She is currently based in New York City, where she lives with her wife and two cats.
KC Trommer is the author of We Call Them Beautiful (Diode Editions, 2019) and The Hasp Tongue (dgp, 2014) and is founder of the online audio project QUEENSBOUND. Since 2018, she has collaborated with the Grammy Award-winning composer Herschel Garfein on a song cycle based on poems from her first collection. She is the 2021 poet-in-residence on Governors Island through Works on Water and was a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council artist-in-residence through their COVID-19 Response Residency Program. With Spencer Reece, she curates the bi-monthly Red Door Series at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church. She is the Assistant Director of Communications at NYU Gallatin and lives in Jackson Heights, Queens, with her son.
