Hosted by Terrain.org nonfiction editor Elizabeth Dodd, this reading featured award-winning writers Kate Wisel, Lauren Camp, and Leonora Simonovis.
Kate Wisel is the author of Driving in Cars with Homeless Men, winner of the 2019 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, selected by Min Jin Lee. Her fiction can be found in places that include Prairie Schooner, Gulf Coast, Tin House online, Adroit Journal, The Best Small Fictions 2019, Redivider (as winner of the Beacon Street Prize), W.W. Norton’s Flash Fiction America, and elsewhere. She lives in Milwaukee, works as an assistant to music critic Jim DeRogatis, and teaches at Columbia College Chicago and Loyola University.
Lauren Camp is the second New Mexico Poet Laureate and author of An Eye in Each Square and Worn Smooth Between Devourings, as well as five other collections of poetry. She is a 2023 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow and the recipient of a Dorset Prize and finalist citations for the Arab American Book Award, Housatonic Book Award, and Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry. Her poems have been translated into Mandarin, Turkish, Spanish, French, and Arabic, and have appeared in New England Review, Poem-a-Day, and Kenyon Review.
Leonora Simonovis is a Venezuelan American poet, editor and educator. Her debut poetry collection, Study of the Raft, won the 2021 Colorado Prize for Poetry and received Honorable Mention at the 2022 International Latino Book Awards. Her poems consider the intersections of language, identity, and spirituality in connection to the land and to her experience as an exile. Leonora’s work has appeared in DMQ Review, The Hopper, About Place Journal, River Mouth Review, and others. She has been the recipient of fellowships and residencies from the Poetry Foundation, VONA, Sundress Academy for the Arts, and the Vermont Studio Center. Leonora is the reviews editor at Ecotheo Review and Currents editor at Terrain.org.
26 сен 2024
