Reading Den

Join us on September 25, 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.

Stefanie Kirby is the author of Fruitful (Driftwood Press, 2024), winner of the Adrift Chapbook Contest, and Remainder, forthcoming from Bull City Press. Her poetry has been included in Best of the Net and appears in West Branch, phoebe, The Massachusetts Review, The Maine Review, The Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. She lives along Colorado’s Front Range with her family.

Danny Goodman‘s writing has appeared in various publications, and he was the recipient of a writer-in-residence fellowship from Rivendell. He earned his MFA in Fiction from the University of New Orleans, where he was a two-time winner of the Samuel Mockbee Award. He lives in the Hudson Valley with his wife, a book editor, and their editorial cats. His debut novel, Amerikaland, which was a Debutiful Most Anticipated Debut Book of 2024, is out now from LEFTOVER Books. 

O.O.  Sangoyomi is a Nigerian American author with a penchant for African mythology and history. During a childhood of constantly moving around within the U.S., she found an anchored home in the fictional worlds of books. Sangoyomi is a graduate of Princeton University, where she studied English and African American Studies. Masquerade is her debut novel.

Johnny Redway lives and works in the Denver area as a high school writing teacher and girls varsity basketball coach. He is a graduate of the Mile High MFA from Regis University, and a co-creator and judge for the Colorado Young Writers Contest through the University of Colorado-Denver. His writing has appeared in New Feathers Anthology and The Transformative Power of Art Journal. 

Isabella Welch is a writer and editor from Northern California. Her writing has been published in Phoebe, Mount Hope Magazine, The San Franciscan, and others. Her novel-in-progress has received support from Sewanee Writers Conference, Aspen Summer Words, and Tin House Summer Workshop. She holds a BA in History from UCLA and an MFA from the University of San Francisco. In her spare time, she leads local writers workshops aimed at fostering community and creative discourse for writers of all backgrounds. 

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