Join us for July's installment of the Catapult Workshop Reading Series! Our instructor Leigh Stein will headline and emcee, and five students from spring classes will share what they've been working on. We'd love to see you there and catch up!
Suggested two drink minimum.
Readers:
LEIGH STEIN is the author of the novel The Fallback Plan, which made the “highbrow brilliant” quadrant in New York Magazine's approval matrix, and a book of poems called Dispatch from the Future, selected for th...
Join us for July's installment of the Catapult Workshop Reading Series! Our instructor Leigh Stein will headline and emcee, and five students from spring classes will share what they've been working on. We'd love to see you there and catch up!
Suggested two drink minimum.
Readers:
LEIGH STEIN is the author of the novel The Fallback Plan, which made the “highbrow brilliant” quadrant in New York Magazine's approval matrix, and a book of poems called Dispatch from the Future, selected for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club and Publishers Weekly‘s Best Summer Books of 2012. Her memoir Land of Enchantment, forthcoming from Blue Rider Press in 2016, is driven by an obsession with young love, abuse, loss, and the landscape of New Mexico. “Bury the Dead,” an essay related to her memoir, was published at Gawker, and another, “Piecing Together My Abusive Ex-Boyfriend’s Final Summer,” went viral after it appeared on BuzzFeed. She is also obsessed with cross-dressing soldiers of the Civil War. For her work as co-director of the literary nonprofit organization Out of the Binders, Stein has been called a “leading feminist” by The Washington Post, and a 2016 “Woman of Influence” by New York Business Journal.
SAXON BAIRD has written for Guernica, Slate, Vice Sports, Eater, Gothamist, Large Up, and many other places. He's also produced several radio documentaries for PRI's Peabody Award-winning Afropop Worldwide. He works as a bartender too.
JASON CHOI considers himself one of those persons who cares deeply about writing and reading, although he does not read as much as he should. During the day, he works as a Client Solutions Analyst. Fun fact: He might be the tallest Asian man living in New York City at 6'8 3/4. Although, he does not often feel that tall...on the inside.
SHAUNACY FERRO is a senior staff writer for mental_floss and an assistant nonfiction editor at Pithead Chapel. She's living the Brooklyn dream of brewing her own kombucha and tweets @shaunacysays.
KYLA MARSHELL's poems, essays, interviews and articles have appeared in Blackbird, ESPNw, Gawker, the Guardian, O, the Oprah Magazine, the Poetry Foundation, Sarah Lawrence Magazine, SPOOK Magazine, and elsewhere. She’s earned an Academy of American Poets College Prize, Cave Canem and Jacob K. Javits fellowships, two residencies to the Vermont Studio Center, and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. In 2013, Ebony.com named her one of "7 Young Black Writers You Should Know."
ALISSON WOOD's essays, stories, and poems have appeared in newspapers and literary journals such as The New York Times, Dovetail, Stillwater, and Salad Days Substance. She is the founder of the new reading series, Pigeon Pages, and is completing a degree in creative writing and literature at NYU.