Please join us as we close out our '16-'17 season with Nicole Cooley, David Galef, Cynthia Manick, and Craig Morgan Teicher! Doors open at 6:30pm for coffee, mingling, and bookbuying. Readings begin at 7pm followed by a Q&A! Hope to see you there!
Nicole Cooley grew up in New Orleans. Her most recent books are two forthcoming collections of poetry: Girl after Girl after Girl (LSU Press, 2017) and Of Marriage (Alice James Books, 2018). She has published four other collections of poems, a novel and a chapbook. Her poetry and non-fiction has appeared in The Rumpus, The Atlantic, and The Feminist Wire among other venues. She is currently finishing a non-fiction book, My Dollhouse, Myself: Miniature Histories. She is the director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Queens College-City University of New York.
David Galef is a shameless eclectic, with over a dozen books in two dozen directions, including the novels Flesh, Turning Japanese, and How to Cope with Suburban Stress (a Book Sense choice, listed by Kirkus as one of the Best 30 Books of 2006); the short-story collections Laugh Track and My Date with Neanderthal Woman (winner of Dzanc Books’ Short Story Collection Award); and the co-edited anthology of fiction 20 over 40. His latest volume is Brevity: A Flash Fiction Handbook, from Columbia University Press. A co-founder of the M.F.A. program in creative writing at the University of Mississippi, he is now a professor of English and creative writing program director at Montclair State University.
Cynthia Manick is the author of Blue Hallelujahs (Black Lawrence Press, 2016). A Pushcart nominee, she has received fellowships from Cave Canem, the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, Hedgebrook, and Poets House. Serves as East Coast Editor of Jamii Publishing and is Founder of the reading series Soul Sister Revue. Her poem "Things I Carry Into the World" was recently made into a short film by Motionpoems, an organization dedicated to video poetry. Manick's work has appeared in the Academy of American Poets' Poem-A-Day Series, African American Review, Kweli, Muzzle Magazine, Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. She resides in Brooklyn, NY.
Craig Morgan Teicher is the author of three books of poems, The Trembling Answers (BOA, 2017), To Keep Love Blurry (BOA, 2012), and Brenda Is in the Room and Other Poems, (CLP, 2007), winner of the Colorado Prize for Poetry. He also wrote Cradle Book: Stories and Fables (BOA, 2010) and the chapbook Ambivalence and Other Conundrums (Omnidawn, 2014). His first collection of essays We Begin in Gladness, will be published by Graywolf. Teicher edited Once and For All: The Best of Delmore Schwartz (New Directions, 2016) and serves as a poetry editor for The Literary Review. He writes about books for many publications, including The New York Times Book Review, The LA Times, and NPR. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and children.