Please note this event occurred in the past.
August 02, 2024 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm ET
Public
Amherst Books, 8 Main Street, Amherst, MA

JoAnna Novak, Abigail Chabitnoy, Dennis Sweeney, & Zoe Tuck will read from recent work. Novak, who graduated from the UMass MFA program, is author of a prize-winning collection of short stories; a memoir, Contradiction Days: An Artist on the Verge of Motherhood; a novel; & four volumes of poetry—most recently, the poetry collection Domestirexia. Chabitnoy currently teaches in the UMass MFA program. She is author of two volumes of poetry, In the Current Where Drowning Is Beautiful & How to Dress a Fish; Sweeney teaches at Amherst College & is author of several volumes of poetry, including In the Antarctic Circle, & recently, the novel The Rolodex Happenings. Tuck is author—most recently—of the poetry collection Bedroom Vowel. She is the co-host of “The But Also” reading series with Britt Billmeyer-Finn & the co-editor of Hot Pink Magazine with Emily Bark Brown.