Join us on July 31, 2024 at Fort Greene for the next installment of the Reading Den series.
The event is free to the public and begins at 7pm. Registration is encouraged.
ABOUT THE READERS
Deborah Taffa’s book, Whiskey Tender (HarperCollins) has been named to several “best” lists at Oprah Daily, ELLE, The NY Times, The Washington Post, and Esquire. With fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, PEN America, MacDowell, and the NY State Summer Writer’s Institute, Deborah received her MFA from the NWP at the University of Iowa. A citizen of the Kwatsaan (Yuma) Nation and Laguna Pueblo, she is the director of the MFA CW program at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM.
Hannah Gilham holds an MFA from NYU where she was a Rona Jaffe Fellow, and coordinator of the KGB Writers Reading Series. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in 45th Parallel, Washington Square Review Online and Ranker. She grew up in rural Colorado and now lives and writes in Denver.
Crisosto Apache is from Mescalero, New Mexico, on the Mescalero Apache reservation. They are Mescalero Apache, Chiricahua Apache, and Diné (Navajo) of the Salt Clan, born for the Towering House Clan. They hold an MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and are a professor of English. They are also an editor-at-large for The Offing Magazine. Apache’s books are GENESIS (Lost Alphabet)& Ghostword (Gnashing Teeth Publishing) winner of the Publishing Triangle’s 2023 Betty Berzon Emerging Writers Award and a finalist for the 2023 Colorado Author’s League Award in poetry. They also are a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee.
Mariella Saavedra Carquin is a writer and mental health therapist. She is this year’s IPPY (Independent Publisher Book Awards) Gold Medalist in poetry for her debut poetry collection, Maps You Can’t Make.
Her book was also a finalist in the poetry category for this year’s Colorado Book Awards. She has practiced as a licensed mental health counselor in New York City in clinical, higher education, and middle school settings and now works in integrated primary care at Children’s Hospital Colorado. She is a graduate of Middlebury College, holds an EdM and an MA in psychological counseling from Columbia University, and an MA from Middlebury’s Bread Loaf School of English. In addition to writing poetry, she has published in various academic journals on the psychological impact of microaggressions experienced by undocumented immigrant youth. Born in Lima, Peru, and raised in Miami, Florida, she currently lives in Colorado.
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