Join us for an evening of readings from James Hannaham, Lincoln Michel, Cara Blue Adams, James Yeh, & Jessica Denzer, with a musical performance by dollshot.

James Hannaham is a writer, performer, and visual artist. His novel Delicious Foods (2015), which deals with human trafficking, won the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and was named one of Publisher’s Weekly’s top ten books of the year. His debut novel, God Says No (2009), was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. He has published fiction in One Story, Fence, StoryQuarterly, and BOMB. He cofounded the New York–based performance group Elevator Repair Service and worked with them from 1992–2002. His text-based artworks often satirize the theoretical jargon that is used to describe visual art. In 2020 his work Everything Is Normal, Everything Is Normal, Everything Is Fine, Everything Is Fine was judged Best in Show at a national juried exhibition of artist books and text-based visual works, Biblio Spectaculum.  He teaches in the writing program at the Pratt Institute.

Lincoln Michel is the author of the science fiction novel The Body Scout (Orbit) and the story collection Upright Beasts (Coffee House Press). He co-edited the Shirley Jackson Award-nominated anthologies Tiny Crimes (Catapult) and Tiny Nightmares (Catapult). His work appears in The Paris Review, Strange Horizons, F&SF, Granta, the Pushcart Prize anthology, and elsewhere.

Cara Blue Adams is the author of You Never Get It Back, winner of the John Simmons Short Fiction Award (University of Iowa Press, 2021), judged by Brandon Taylor, who calls it “a modern classic.” Her stories appear in many magazines, including Granta, The Kenyon Review, and American Short Fiction. She has been awarded the Kenyon Review Short Fiction Prize, the Missouri Review Peden Prize, and the Meringoff Prize in Fiction, along with a Center for Fiction Emerging Writers Fellowship and support from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is an associate professor of creative writing at Seton Hall University and lives in Brooklyn.

James Yeh is a writer, Believer editor, and Columbia professor on Wednesdays. His work appears or is forthcoming in the New York Times, the Guardian, NOON, and the Drift. He lives down the street from here and, if you ask nicely, you can borrow his truck.

Jessica Denzer is a writer and educator based in New York. She received her BA in English Literature from Fordham University and her MFA in fiction from Sarah Lawrence College. She is a researcher in residence at the New York Public Library and a contributing editor and writer for Four Way Review. Her most recent short story, "The Silence,” will appear in the Spring 2022 edition of the West Trade Review.

Dollshot are a group who feel most at home in a state of perpetual dislocation. The husband-and-wife duo are forever hovering between oppositional worlds—physically, musically, and spiritually. Rosie’s from a small town in Virginia, Noah’s from L.A. They both cut their teeth at conservatory, but they conceived of Dollshot as an indie-rock outfit where they could bend the rules of their formal training. This is a band that owes an equally enthusiastic debt to the microtonal theories of Russian experimental composer Ivan Wyschnegradsky and No Doubt’s Tragic Kingdom.