In the lounge Guerrilla Lit Reading Series Featuring Said Sayrafiezadeh, Alisson Wood & Kristopher Jansma

About This Show

This series has hosted readings by emerging & established authors since 2007. Because the pen is mightier than the Kalashnikov (we hope). Curated by Lee Matthew Goldberg, Camellia Phillips, and Marco Rafalá. Hosted by Camellia Phillips.

About the Authors

Said Sayrafiezadeh is the author of the story collection, Brief Encounters With the Enemy, a finalist for the 2014 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Fiction Prize, and the critically acclaimed memoir, When Skateboards Will Be Free, selected as one of the ten best books of the year by Dwight Garner of The New York Times. His short stories and personal essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, McSweeney’s, The New York Times, The Best American Nonrequired Reading and New American Stories, among other publications. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award for nonfiction and a fiction fellowship from the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. Saïd teaches memoir in the MFA program at Hunter College and creative writing at New York University, where he received a 2013 Outstanding Teaching Award.

Alisson Wood‘s essays, stories, and poems have appeared in newspapers and literary journals such as The New York Times (Sunday print edition), Catapult, Dovetail, Stillwater, and Salad Days Substance. She is the founder and curator of the Bookcourt reading series, Pigeon Pages, and is completing a degree in creative writing and literature at NYU. She is at work on a memoir.

Kristopher Jansma is the winner of the 2014 Sherwood Anderson Award for Fiction. His debut novel, The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards, received an Honorable Mention for the 2014 PEN/Hemingway Award and was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence and the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize. He has written for The New York Times, The Believer, Story, The Millions, ZYZZVA, Slice, and the Blue Mesa Review. An assistant professor at SUNY New Paltz and a graduate instructor at Sarah Lawrence College, Jansma lives in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife and son.

Friday, September 30 at 7:30pm

Free Admission

Estimated Runtime
50 minutes

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Credits

Featuring
Said Sayrafiezadeh, Alisson Wood & Kristopher Jansma

Curated by
Lee Matthew Goldberg, Camellia Phillips, and Marco Rafalá.
Hosted by Camellia Phillips.