Reading Den

Join us on September 24 at Fort Greene for the next installment of the Reading Den series.

The event is free to the public and begins at 7pm. We are no longer requiring free registration for our events. Just show up and enjoy the readings and community.

Michelle Gurule is a writer and educator based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Michelle earned her M.F.A. in Creative Nonfiction from the University of New Mexico in 2021. Her creative work explores the complexities of sex work, class, power and Michelle’s identity as a queer, white / Chicana woman.

Her memoir, Thank You, John, is a comedy-tragedy, set in Denver, which follows 24-year-old, Michelle, a wanna-be writer, exasperated by poverty, bad teeth, and the poor choices of her family, through a tumultuous sugar daddy arrangement that she believes her destiny. Her work has appeared in Slate, Huffpost Personals, Electric Lit, The Offing, Joyland, StoryQuarterly, and others. 

Chris “Maddy” Aguilar-Garcia is a Chicanx writer and editor based in their home state of Colorado. They have written a deep purple archive examining the queerness of Prince. As a Prince scholar they have presented at “Purple Reign: An Interdisciplinary Conference” at Salford University in Manchester, England, “Prince in MPLS”and “Prince on Screen” at the University of Minnesota, multiple Pop Culture Association conferences, and they are a frequent contributor at the “Polished Solid” series of Prince forums at NYU. 

They are currently the Program Director at The Word, A Storytelling Sanctuary following a nonprofit career in Los Angeles and Denver area local and national nonprofits.

Bridget Bell is the author of the poetry collection All That We Ask of You Is to Always Be Happy (CavanKerry Press 2025) which the New York Times Book Review called an “urgent, cleareyed debut.” She teaches composition and literature at Durham Technical Community College, proofreads manuscripts for Four Way Books, and pours pints at Ponysaurus Brewery. You can find her online at bridgetbellpoetry.com or on Instagram at @bridgetkbell.

A.C. Koch is a teacher, writer and musician whose work has been published in Analog, Gulf Coast, Split/Lip, Meridian, Five South and forthcoming in Catamaran and Fantasy & Science Fiction. After some years living and working overseas (France, South Korea, Mexico), he resides in Denver, Colorado, working with language learners and writing film reviews for Spectrum Culture. He recently completed the Regis Mile High MFA program and is querying a novel-in-stories, ASK THE MOON.