Photo credits: Nina Subin, Denise Applewhite, Claudia Cortese

The Red Eye Cafe will open its doors at 6pm for coffee, food and mingling. The reading will start at 7pm. 

John Keene is the author of the award-winning novel Annotations (New Directions); the art-poetry collection Seismosis (1913 Press) with artist Christopher Stackhouse; and the short fiction collection Counternarratives (New Directions), which has been named to "Best Fiction of 2015" lists by New York Magazine and Flavorwire. His art-text collaboration with photographer Nicholas Muellner, GRIND, is forthcoming from ITI Press in 2016. He has also published a translation of Brazilian author Hilda Hilst's novel Letters from a Seducer (Nightboard Books / A Bolha Editora), and has exhibited his artwork in Brooklyn and Berlin. A longtime member of the Dark Room Writers Collective and a graduate fellow of Cave Canem, he currently serves on the board of the African Poetry Book Fund, and teaches in the department of English and African American and African Studies, which he chairs, and also is a core faculty member in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Rutgers University-Newark. 

Brenda Shaughnessy is the author of three collections of poetry: Our Andromeda, Human Dark with Sugar, and Interior with Sudden Joy.  Her new book, So Much Synth, is forthcoming in May 2016 from Copper Canyon Press. Her poems have appeared most recently Poetry, Paris Review, The New Yorker, The Literary Review, and The Awl. She's the recipient of a 2013 Guggenheim Foundation fellowship and is Associate Professor of English/Creative Writing at Rutgers University-Newark. She lives in Verona, NJ with her family. 

Boris Tsessarsky's fiction has appeared in Bare Fiction, Lunch Ticket, Folio, and Temenos Journal. Currently he is working on a collection of speculative war stories, as well as a novel about a German jazz pianist. He teaches first-year writing at Montclair State University and holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. 

(Ed Park previously was scheduled but due to a conflict, will join us another time!)