Reading Den

Join us on October29 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.

Ramona Ausubel is the author of five books, most recently The Last Animal which was a national bestseller, received the National Book Foundation Science + Nature Prize and was a Barnes & Noble book of the month. Her previous books are Awayland: stories, Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty, A Guide to Being Born and No One is Here Except All of Us. She is the recipient of the PEN/USA Fiction Award, the Cabell First Novelist Award and has been a finalist for both the California and Colorado Book Awards and the New York Public Library Young Lions Award. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review daily, One Story, Tin House, The Oxford American, Ploughshares and elsewhere. She is a professor at Colorado State University and has taught in the Bennington Writing Seminars Tin House, Writing by Writers, the Community of Writers, Bread Loaf Environmental and elsewhere. She lives in Boulder, Colorado with her family.

R.L. Maizes is the author of the forthcoming novel A Complete Fiction, out November 4. Maizes’s debut novel, Other People’s Pets, won the 2021 Colorado Book Award in Fiction and was a Library Journal Best Debut of Summer/Fall 2020. She is also the author of the short story collection We Love Anderson Cooper. Her stories have aired on National Public Radio, can be found in Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading and in The Best Small Fictions 2020, and have been performed by Stories on Stage. Maizes’s essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, O Magazine, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and have aired on NPR. She is a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellow and the recipient of a Fellowship Grant from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture for 2024-2025 for her novel-in-progress. Maizes lives in Niwot, Colorado. 

Andrew Hemmert is the author of No Longer at This Address, Blessing the Exoskeleton, and Sawgrass Sky. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in various magazines including The Cincinnati Review, Copper Nickel, The Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, and The Southern Review. He lives in Thornton, Colorado.

Jessica Manack lives with her family in Pittsburgh, where she serves as an editor at Rust Belt Magazine and the Pittsburgh Review of Books and as poetry reader for TriQuarterly. Her writing has appeared widely in literary journals and anthologies, and she has been the recipient of a Curious Creators Grant and Getaway Artist Fellowship. Her poetry collection Gastromythology is out now from Sheila-Na-Gig Editions.

Nancy Viera is a Mexican American author from Denver, Colorado. She is the author of the memoir The Grief and The Happiness, four poetry collections, and the forthcoming novel Flower Moon Runner. Her work has been showcased at the Denver Art Museum, and she has taught writing workshops in schools and colleges including Colorado College and Regis University.