Reading Den

Join us on March 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.

Elizabeth Endicott will be the guest emcee for the night!

Suzi Q. Smith is an award-winning author, artist, educator, and organizer who lives in Denver, Colorado. While primarily known for her poetry, Suzi is also a singer-songwriter, playwright, and interdisciplinary creative. She has created, curated, coached, and taught for over 20 years, touring throughout the United States. She is the author of poetry collections. Poems for the End of the World, A Gospel of Bones (winner of the 2019 Electric Press Award), and the chapbook collection, Thirteen Descansos. In 2023, she was a writer in residence at Chateau d’Orquevaux in France while she worked toward completing her first memoir.

Molly Seeling is a writer, photographer, and videographer based in the mountains outside of Boulder, Colorado. She’s an active member of Lighthouse Writers Workshop and her work has been published in Vast Chasm Magazine, Unfortunately Literary Magazine, Spry Literary Journal, and Landing Zone Magazine. She is represented by Katie Grimm at Curtis Brown and about to go on submission for her debut novel.

Maggie Kantor is a writer and tech worker who hopes to entertain and inspire with their fantasy worlds and science fiction intrigues. Their work can currently be found in LitMora Literary Magazine, DarkWinter Literary Magazine, The Viridian Door, and PopCult! Literary Magazine. They are very excited to be featured in Twenty Bellow’s upcoming anthology We Are the Embers. 
Maggie bikes, climbs, and writes when not exploring the galaxy with the crew of the USS Enterprise or vegging on the couch with their partner and their totally reasonable number of cats.

Megan “Cool-Boots” Foley is a queer poet, author, and artist who specializes in crying & trying. They write sad poems, they make unhinged art, and they spend 60% of their time on Thesarus.com trying to find the exact word they want. Their manuscript “Survivla Exhibits” was longlisted for the Dzanc Book’s Poetry Prize, and their work has been published with Twenty Bellows, Walkabout, and Beyond the Veil Press. They earned their MFA at the Mile High MFA program at Regis University. Megan does not live in a beautiful mountain home with her lovely husband. They do not enjoy skiing and hiking. She is a medical mystery, no one is really sure why she’s like this. Megan is a professional baffler, a career cryptid, and the leading expert on how to make the world a weirder place.

Evan James Sheldon is the author of Children and Their
Cages (Twelve House Book, 2022) and the chapbook Shed the Midnight (Ghost City Press, 2019). His work has appeared in the Cincinnati Review, American Literary Review, and New World Writing, among other journals. He is the Editorial Director for Brink Literacy Project and the Features Editor for F(r)iction.

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