Pamela Alex DiFrancesco will read from their new book The Devils That Have Come to Stay, which has been hailed as a "starkly beautiful, poetic novel" by Small Press Picks, and as a "haunting and edgy western reclaimed and radicalized for the 21st century" by PEN Award winner Siddhartha Deb.
Mya Byrne will perform music based on the novel that the two co-wrote.
Joining us for this event will be special guests Emma Caterine and Ella Boureau. Emma and Ella are both writers of thoughtful, intelli...
Pamela Alex DiFrancesco will read from their new book The Devils That Have Come to Stay, which has been hailed as a "starkly beautiful, poetic novel" by Small Press Picks, and as a "haunting and edgy western reclaimed and radicalized for the 21st century" by PEN Award winner Siddhartha Deb.
Mya Byrne will perform music based on the novel that the two co-wrote.
Joining us for this event will be special guests Emma Caterine and Ella Boureau. Emma and Ella are both writers of thoughtful, intelligent fiction that sometimes falls under the genre fiction label.
Most of Pamela Alex DiFrancesco's life is based around the written word. Pamela Alex has, in the past, worked at newspapers, interned in publishing, sold books, and taught writing in after school programs. Pamela Alex's short fiction has appeared in literary magazines such as The New Ohio Review and The Carolina Quarterly, and on the website of Stoned Crow Press, of which they are a founding member. Pamela Alex also volunteers with homeless LGBTQIA youth and is slowly learning to play the banjo.
Mya Adriene Byrne is a poet, award-winning performing songwriter, and activist. A proud trans woman, she established her solo folk career in 2012 after years of performing with roots-rock band, the Ramblers, opening for acts such as Levon Helm. Her new album, “As I Am”, is out now, and her writing and music were recently featured in the Advocate. Follow her at @myadriene and listen at www.myabyrne.bandcamp.com.
Ella Boureau is a writer, teacher and translator living in Brooklyn. She is the recipient of the 2013-2014 Queer Art Mentorship and runs the online magazine and reading series: In the Flesh (http://www.inthefleshmag.com/). You can see her work there, as well as in Tin House, Slice Magazine, The Rumpus, Pretty Queer, Fullstop, the Huffington Post and the erotica anthology The Uncensored Collection by Private Commission.
Emma Caterine is a prison abolitionist, decriminalization advocate, socialist, and cat lover. She has written in the past for Autostraddle, RH Reality Check, The Feminist Wire, and Tits and Sass. Her new zine, “The New Southern Gothic Poisoned Your Children” has been called “a book of nightmares…like a collection of spiky punk songs messing around with elements of different genres, all having little in common other than being resolutely about the horrific.” Say hi to her on March 7th at NYC Feminist Zine Fest.
