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.
Hang out, listen to some riveting stories, and meet us for a drink at Geno's afterwards.
February 3, 2020
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. 
Christopher Torockio
is the author of Floating Holidays, a novel, and of two collections of stories, most recently The Truth at Daybreak. His short fiction has appeared in The Antioch Review, Denver Quarterly, The Gettysburg Review, The Iowa Review, Willow Springs, and many other publications. He teaches at Eastern Connecticut State University. 
Raouf Mama
is a Faculty Row Super Professor and a Distinguished Professor of English at Eastern Connecticut State University. He is the only one in the world today who tells folktales from his native Benin in English, French, Yoruba, and Fon. He is the author of five books: Why Goats Smell Bad and Other Stories from Benin; Pearls of Wisdom; The Barefoot Book of Tropical Tales; Why Monkeys Live in Trees, winner of the 2008 National Multicultural Children's Book Award; and Fortune's Favored Child, a memoir. March 2, 2020
Sonya Huber
is the author of five books, including Opa Nobody, Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir, and the essay collection on chronic pain, Pain Woman Takes Your Keys and Other Essays from a Nervous System. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Brevity, Creative Nonfiction, and other outlets. She teaches at Fairfield University and in the Fairfield low-residency MFA program. 
Claudia McGee
has dealt in and with words for decades as a software technical writer, information architect, newspaper columnist, freelance editor, eBook producer, poet, essayist, and fiction writer. Claudia's chapbook of poems, Paperlight, was published by Finishing Line Press. While her technical writing has been translated into six languages and distributed across Europe, South America, and Japan, now that she is retired, she trying to make sure her science fiction, memoir, and poems read properly in American English. |
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Sean Frederick Forbes
is an Assistant Professor-in-Residence of English and the Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Connecticut. In 2009, he received a Woodrow Wilson Mellon Mays University Fellows Travel and Research Grant for travel to Providencia, Colombia. Providencia, his first book of poetry, was published in 2013. He serves as the poetry editor for New Square, the official publication of The Sancho Panza Literary Society for which he is a founding member. In 2017, he received first place in the Nutmeg Poetry Contest from the Connecticut Poetry Society.
is an Assistant Professor-in-Residence of English and the Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Connecticut. In 2009, he received a Woodrow Wilson Mellon Mays University Fellows Travel and Research Grant for travel to Providencia, Colombia. Providencia, his first book of poetry, was published in 2013. He serves as the poetry editor for New Square, the official publication of The Sancho Panza Literary Society for which he is a founding member. In 2017, he received first place in the Nutmeg Poetry Contest from the Connecticut Poetry Society.
Sarah P. Strong
is the author of two novels, The Fainting Room and Burning the Sea and two poetry collections, Tour of the Breath
Gallery and the forthcoming The Mouth of Earth. Sarah’s work has appeared in The Nation, The Southern Review, River
Styx, The Sun, and many other journals, and both their fiction and poetry have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
They teach creative writing at the University of Hartford and CCSU.
April 6, 2020
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Mary Collins
worked for twenty years as a freelance writer and editor in Washington, D.C. for a range of clients, including National Geographic andSmithsonian. She also taught part-time at John Hopkins before returning to her native Connecticut in 2007 for a tenured position at Central Connecticut State University. There, she teaches narrative nonfiction and has previously served as the director of the Center for Teaching and Faculty Development. She has published three adult nonfiction books and five young adult nonfiction books, has worked as an artist-in-residence for the National Park Service, and has written many award-winning essays. |
Emily Lyon
received her MFA from Southern Connecticut State University. She's looking for a home for her first novel, an account of an American woman living in Tel Aviv during the Second Intifada. She taught creative writing for a couple of years, but she now runs a record shop (recordsthegoodkind.com) and works as a flight attendant. She writes about flying in the first person.
received her MFA from Southern Connecticut State University. She's looking for a home for her first novel, an account of an American woman living in Tel Aviv during the Second Intifada. She taught creative writing for a couple of years, but she now runs a record shop (recordsthegoodkind.com) and works as a flight attendant. She writes about flying in the first person.
Marco Rafalà
is a first-generation Sicilian American novelist, musician, and writer for award-winning tabletop role-playing games. He earned his MFA in Fiction from The New School and is a cocurator of the Guerrilla Lit Reading Series in New York City. Born in Middletown, Connecticut, he now lives in Brooklyn, New York. How Fires End is his debut novel. For more information, visit www.marcorafala.com.
is a first-generation Sicilian American novelist, musician, and writer for award-winning tabletop role-playing games. He earned his MFA in Fiction from The New School and is a cocurator of the Guerrilla Lit Reading Series in New York City. Born in Middletown, Connecticut, he now lives in Brooklyn, New York. How Fires End is his debut novel. For more information, visit www.marcorafala.com.
May 4, 2018
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Aaron Caycedo-Kimura
is a poet and visual artist. His poetry appears or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Poet Lore, DMQ Review, Tule Review, THINK Journal, Naugatuck River Review, and elsewhere. He is also the author and illustrator of Text, Don’t Call: An Illustrated Guide to the Introverted Life (TarcherPerigee). |
Meghan Evans
graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with an MFA in Creative Writing. She is a teacher at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts in Hartford and a Professor of Literature at Central Connecticut State University.
graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with an MFA in Creative Writing. She is a teacher at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts in Hartford and a Professor of Literature at Central Connecticut State University.
Sebastian Stockman
is an associate teaching professor in the English Department at Northeastern University, where he also directs the writing minor. He has written for The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, and The Boston Globe, as well as The Millions, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Georgia Review. His essays have been notable selections in The Best American Essays and The Best American Sports Writing collections.
is an associate teaching professor in the English Department at Northeastern University, where he also directs the writing minor. He has written for The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, and The Boston Globe, as well as The Millions, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Georgia Review. His essays have been notable selections in The Best American Essays and The Best American Sports Writing collections.
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