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Join us on the first Monday of every month at 7PM at the UConn B&N in Downtown Storrs. 
Hang out, listen to some riveting stories, and meet us for a drink at Geno's afterwards. 

Monday, April 1, 2019 

Eileen Albrizio 
is a former ABC and NPR radio news host and journalist, a career which earned her numerous first-prize honors from the Associated Press and the Society of Professional Journalists. She has a BFA in Theatre and an MA in English and is the author of numerous volumes of poetry and short literature. Her book The Box Under the Bed won the 2015 Paranormal Poetry and Prose Prize. Her debut novel, The Windsome Tree: A Ghost Story, was published in May 2018. 
Ron Farina
served in Vietnam in 1966 and 1967. He earned a B.A. in Creative Nonfiction from Central Connecticut State University and is currently pursuing an MFA at Western Connecticut State University. Farina's essay "A Keyhole" was featured on NPR. His short story “A Place More Kind Than Home" is scheduled for hard-copy release in January 2019 as part of the anthology The Odds Were Against Us. His current work-in-progress, “At the Altar of the Past,” a love story set during the Vietnam War, is scheduled for completion in mid-2019.
​Megan Collins
is the author of The Winter Sister. She has taught creative writing at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts and Central Connecticut State University. She is also the managing editor of 3Elements Literary Review. A Pushcart nominee, her work has appeared in many journals, including Rattle, Spillway, and Tinderbox.

Monday, May 6, 2019

Lisa C. Taylor
is the author of two collections of short fiction, including Impossibly Small Places and Growing a New Tail. Lisa’s honors include the 2015 Hugo House New Works Award and several Pushcart nominations in both fiction and poetry. Alongside Geraldine Mills, she presented at the Elizabeth Shanley Gerson Irish Literature Reading at the University of Connecticut in 2011. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in numerous journals, including WomenArts Quarterly Journal and The Worcester Review.
Sarah Gilligan
is currently completing The Genius of Connecticut, her collection of short stories set in the Hartford of the 1980s. She previously wrote a series of essays about her tangle with breast cancer and has run her writing and graphic design firm, Cerebration, for more than twenty-five years. Her work has been published in the Two Sisters Writing & Publishing First Annual Anthology, and she earned an honorable mention in the 2017 Short Story America Prize. Sarah lives in Windsor with her husband and two daughters.
Aaron Tillman
is associate professor of English and director of the Honors Program at Newbury College. His short story collection, Every Single Bone in My Brain, was published in July 2017. He received the John Gardner Memorial Prize for Fiction from Harpur Palate, a Short Story Award for New Writers from Glimmer Train, and he is a two-time Pushcart nominee. More details available on his website: aarontillmanfiction.com.

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