The ever-popular monthly reading series returns with a wonderful February lineup including Eric Tran and the two Tin House February residents, Njelle Hamilton & Koye Oyedeji!
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Eric Tran (he/him) is a queer Vietnamese poet and the author of Mouth, Sugar, and Smoke, winner of the Oregon Book Award and finalist for the Thom Gunn Award, and The Gutter Spread Guide to Prayer. His poetry has been featured in All Things Considered, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and Best of the Net, among other publications. He is a psychiatrist in Portland, OR and co-organizes PDX Queer Asian Social Meet-Up.
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Njelle Hamilton (a/k/a Njara) (she/her) is a Jamaican singer, songwriter, storyteller and scholar. She teaches and writes literary criticism on contemporary Caribbean novels and narrative theory by day. But at night and on weekends she moonlights as a novelist, in a quest to recover her writing voice from academese. She is working on a novel, Everything Irie, as well as a monograph about Caribbean time travel sci-fi. She lives in Charlottesville with her plastic plants and enjoys relaxing on her fake tropical oasis balcony, ‘Fauxhemia.’
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Koye Oyedeji (he/him) is a fiction and non-fiction creative based in Washington D.C. His work is often centered around the black diaspora. His writings have appeared in a number of publications including Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, AGNI, Wasafiri Magazine, The Believer and elsewhere. His past fiction fellowships include the Callaloo Writer's Workshop and VONA writing workshop, a Tennessee Williams Scholarship at the Sewanee Writers Conference and a Work Study Scholarship at the 2016 Bread Loaf Writers Conference. He has taught at American University and the Duke Ellington School of the Arts. He is currently working on a composite novel and a novel.