Join The Book Cellar and four female poets for an evening of poetry! Jessica Cuello, Chloe Martinez, Alina Stefanescu, and Shannon K Winston are gathering virtually from across the US to read from their newest collections.
About the Poets
Jessica Cuello’s Liar was selected by Dorianne Laux for the 2020 Barrow Street Book Prize and her manuscript Yours, Creature is forthcoming from JackLeg Press in spring of 2023. Cuello is also the author of Hunt (The Word Works, 2017) and Pricking (Tiger Bark Press, 2016). Cuello has been awarded The 2017 CNY Book Award, The 2016 Washington Prize, The New Letters Poetry Prize, a Saltonstall Fellowship, and The New Ohio Review Poetry Prize. She is a poetry editor at Tahoma Literary Review and teaches French in CNY.
THURSDAY, JUNE 16TH
7:00 PM CST
Chloe Martinez is a poet and scholar of South Asian religions. She is the author of the collection Ten Thousand Selves (The Word Works) and the chapbook Corner Shrine (Backbone Press). Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, TriQuarterly, Shenandoah and elsewhere. She works at Claremont McKenna College. www.chloeAVmartinez.com
Alina Stefanescu was born in Romania and currently lives in Alabama with her partner and three opinionated mammals. A multiple Pushcart nominee, she is the author of Objects In Vases (Anchor & Plume, March 2016), Letters to Arthur (Beard of Bees, August 2016), and Ipokimen (Anchor and Plume, November 2016). Her debut fiction collection, Every Mark I Tried On, won the 2016 Brighthorse Prize. More online at www.alinastefanescu.com.
Shannon K. Winston's poems have appeared in RHINO, Crab Creek Review, The Citron Review, Los Angeles Review, Zone 3, and elsewhere. Her work has been nominated for several Pushcart and Best of the Net prizes. Her poetry collection, The Girl Who Talked to Paintings, was recently published by Glass Lyre Press. Find her here: https://shannonkwinston.com/.