Reading Den

Join us on February 26 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.

Sarah Gerard is the author of Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable, an NPR Best Book of the Year. She also wrote the essay collection Sunshine State, a New York Times critics’ choice; the novella Binary Star, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times first fiction prize; two chapbooks; and the novel True Love. Her short stories, essays, interviews, and criticism have appeared in the New York Times, Granta, The Baffler, Vice, BOMB Magazine, and other journals, as well as anthologies. She’s been supported by fellowships and residencies from Yaddo, Tin House, PlatteForum, Ucross, and the Whiting Foundation. She lives in Denver.

Suzy Krause is a writer and music lover from the Saskatchewan prairies. She is the author of Valencia and Valentine (2019), Sorry I Missed You (2020), and I Think We’ve Been Here Before (2024). Her books have been translated into Russian and Estonian and optioned for film.  

Brice Maiurro is a Colorado poet, workshop facilitator, storyteller and artist. He is a cofounder of the nationwide howling movement, where in early 2020, thousands of people in all fifty states and over one-hundred countries went outside every night at 8pm to howl. He is the author of four poetry collections, including The Heart is an Undertaker Bee, published by Middle Creek Press. He has told stories with Liminal, The Narrators, Ignite Denver and Unsent. Themes of his work include human connection, ecology, and finding the divine in the mundane.

D.L. Cordero is a fantasy author, occasional poet, and horror dabbler working out of Denver, CO. Their work can be found in several literary magazines and anthologies, such as Listen To Your Skin: An Anthology of Queer and Self-Love, Take the Fruit, and Denver Noir, which won the Colorado Book Award in 2023. They were a 2024 Periplus Collective Fellow and are currently an MFA student at Randolph College. When not storytelling, Cordero can be found wrangling their pittie and lab, thrifting for witchy oddities, and binging anime.

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