About This Show

Curated by Tom Cole & Christen Clifford

Fiction, nonfiction, poetry & performance texts by the most adventurous, cross-genre established & emerging writers.

Meet Our Authors:

Tom Carey was born in Los Angeles, CA, the scion of a family of actors. His father, Harry Carey, Jr., was a well-known character actor (Red River, The Searchers, Tombstone), as were both his grandfathers (Harry Carey and Paul Fix). After high school Tom studied acting with Jack Garfein and Stella Adler. He appears in several feature films and TV shows, among them Plaza Suite, The Day of the Locust, and The Blue Knight. After moving to New York City in 1977, he fronted for the punk rock band, “The Beeks,” and was literary assistant to
poets James Schuyler and John Ashbery. He earned a degree in Spanish at Columbia University. Between 1988 and 2014, he was a Franciscan brother of the Society of St. Francis, an Anglican religious order and lived at various times in Brooklyn, Long Island, San Francisco, Brazil and the U.K. In Brooklyn, he ran a theater program for inner city kids for six years, and taught poetry in New York
City’s public schools for a decade. He was ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church in 2003.

His book of poems Desire (Painted Leaf Press 1997) was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. His poems have appeared in Word of Mouth: An Anthology of Gay American Poetry, and The KGB Reader, as well as in numerous magazines and quarterlies. His first novel Small Crimes was published by BlazeVox Books in 2011. From 2010-2022 he was the priest at The Church of the Epiphany (Iglesia de la Epifania) in Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles, CA. He currently lives in New York City and is the Interim Priest at The Church of the
Redeemer in Astoria, Queens.

Jodi Lin identifies as a gender expansive poet, filmmaker and a person who hears voices. Taiwanese of the Seediq Tribe, they are currently based in Manhattan. Graduate of the ART Institute at Harvard, Sarah Lawrence College and a Brooklyn Poets Fellow. Their short film, Borte, Queen of Tibet, was nominated for the festival prize at Soho International Film Festival, exhibited at New York City’s Center for Art, Research and Alliances, and received numerous other screenings.Their writing practice is enriched by the certified peer recovery coaching and support they provide. The Tenderness of Glass is their debut collection from new words {press). The book was written as an offering of a new world to their ancestors.

Picture Credit: Brett Lindell