Reading Den

Join us on March 25 at Fort Greene for the next installment of the Reading Den series.

The event is free and open 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.

Erika T. Wurth’s novel WHITE HORSE is a New York Times editors pick, a Good Morning America buzz pick, and an Indie Next, Target book of the Month, and Book of the Month Pick. She is both a Kenyon and Sewanee fellow, and Kenyon faculty. She’s published in Buzzfeed, McSweeny’s, The Writer’s Chronicle, and is a narrative artist for the Meow Wolf Denver installation. She’s an urban Native of Apache/Chickasaw/Cherokee descent and lives in Denver with her partner, niece, step-kids and two incredibly fluffy dogs. Her novel THE HAUNTING OF ROOM 904 has already garnered national attention.

Jasmin Iolani Hakes is the author of THE POHAKU and HULA, named a Best Book of the Summer by Harper’s Bazaar and ELLE, best debut novel of 2023 by Booklist, HONOLULU Magazine’s 2024 Book of the Year, and winner of an Audiofile Earphones Award.

She is of mixed ethnicity and is in part a product of those who migrated to the Hawaiian Kingdom to labor in the sugarcane industry from all over the world, including Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and the Portuguese Islands of Madeira and the Azores.

Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Lithub, and the Sacramento Bee. She is the recipient of the Best Fiction award from the Southern California Writers Conference, a Community of Writers LoJo Foundation Scholarship, a Writing by Writers Emerging Voices fellowship, and residencies from Hedgebrook, VCCA, and Storyknife.

She lives in Los Angeles.

Michelle Polizzi is an essayist, journalist, and travel writer whose work has appeared in HuffPost, Slate, Reader’s Digest, Parade, Men’s Journal, Travel + Leisure, Explore, Barn Raiser, The Quality Edit, and The Economic Hardship Reporting Project, among other publications. Her work explores class, society, healing, and the intersections between. Her unpublished memoir, MODEL HOME, offers an unseen portrait of the housing crisis in Appalachia. She holds a BA in writing and rhetoric from Syracuse University and an MA in creative writing from Wilkes University. She is represented by Victoria Skurnick at Levine Greenberg Rostan literary agency.

Mathea “Mae” Tanner likes stories about real people, but her creations are never ordinary. Whether writing, performing, or producing, her creations have been referred to as “quirky, full of character” and “genuine.” Her writing has been called “an original voice nearly flawless in its sense of mechanics.”

She is currently working on her first novel while studying in NYU’s Low Residency MFA program in Paris, France. She grew up in Chicago and now calls Denver home.

Wendy B. Correa is a writer, yogi, hiker and public speaker. She has worked in the film, television, and music industries in Los Angeles and as a radio DJ in Aspen, Colorado. She holds bachelor’s degrees in psychology and theater arts.

A wife and mother, she resides in Denver, Colorado. My Pretty Baby, an Amazon #1 Best Seller, is her debut book. For more information, visit http://www.wendybcorrea.com.