Please join Black Sun Lit for the launch and live reading of Michel Surya’s Dead End, with translator Kit Schluter, Katie Ebbitt, Katy Mongeau, V Manuscript, Maralie Armstrong-Rial & Mitch Anzuoni.
KIT SCHLUTER is the author of Pierrot’s Fingernails (Canarium Books, 2020) and the forthcoming Cartoons (City Lights, 2024). His recent and forthcoming translations from the French and Spanish include Dead End by Michel Surya (Black Sun Lit, 2023) and books by bruno darío, Copi, Anne Kawala, Mario Levrero, Marie de Quatrebarbes, Marcel Schwob, and Olivia Tapiero. He lives in Mexico City.
KATIE EBBITT is the author of Another Life (Counterpath Press, 2016) and Para Ana (Inpatient Press, 2019). Her forthcoming full-length collection, FECUND, will be published by Keith LLC in 2024, along with the chapbooks AIR SIGN (The Creative Writing Department) and Hysterical Pregnancy (above/ground press). She lives in Manhattan with her one-eyed cat, Balor.
KATY MONGEAU is a writer from Jacksonville, FL. She holds an MFA from Brown University and currently resides in New York. Her work has appeared in Fanzine, Threadcount, PLINTH, digital vestiges, Dark Fucking Wizard, and SELFFUCK. Her debut book of poems, Apostasy, was published by Black Sun Lit in 2020.
V MANUSCRIPT is a poet and scriptomancer living in New York City. Their first full-length poem/grimoire, Salamander’s Wool, is out now with Inpatient Press. Manuscript also performs collaboratively as Humanbeast with artist and partner Maralie.
MARALIE ARMSTRONG-RIAL is a Brooklyn-based artist, vocalist, producer, and educator whose work finds heritage in spiritual and sensual expressions via electronic media. Maralie performs collaboratively as half of Humanbeast with artist and partner Eli V Manuscript and solo as VALISE. Enriching her/their practice as an exhibiting artist, Maralie currently teaches as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Brown University in the Department of Modern Culture and Media.
MITCH ANZUONI is the founding editor and executive janitor of Inpatient Press and its translation imprint, Mercurial Editions.