Join us on Saturday, January 20, 2024 at 7:00 PM for our January Watershed Reading featuring Garnett Kilberg-Cohen, E.H. Lupton, and Fae Dremock. Kilberg-Cohen will be reading from her latest fiction collection, Cravings. Lupton will be reading chapter one of Old Time Religion, which comes out January, 2024. Dremock will be reading from a novel in progress about a second generation immigrant trying to escape poverty and the abuse of her childhood in Texas.
January Watershed Reading
Garnett Kilberg Cohen will publish her fourth collection of short stories, Cravings (UWP) in 2023. Her three previous collections include Lost Women, Banished Souls, How We Move the Air, and Swarm to Glory. She also publishes nonfiction and poetry, including a chapbook, called Passion Tour. Her writing has appeared in The Antioch Review, TriQuarterly, The New Yorker online, Rumpus, Witness, The Gettysburg Review, among other places. Her awards include an Illinois Artists Fellowship for Prose, the Crazyhorse National Fiction Prize, and two Notable Essay citations from Best American Essays. A professor at Columbia College Chicago for over 30 years, Chairperson for eleven years, Garnett has served in various editorial positions at Another Chicago Magazine, Punctuate: A Nonfiction Magazine, and Fifth Wednesday. She earned her BA, magna cum laude, from the University of Cincinnati... Read More
E.H. Lupton (she/they) lives in Madison, WI. She is the author of the novella The Joy of Fishes (Vagabondage/Battered Suitcase Press, 2014). Her poems have been published in a number of journals, including Poet Lore, 300 Days of Sun, and House of Zolo's Journal of Speculative Literature. She is also one half of the duo behind the hit podcast Ask a Medievalist. In her free time, she enjoys running long distances and painting. Dionysus in Wisconsin (Winnowing Fan Press, 2023) is her debut novel.
A second-generation Hispanic immigrant from North Texas, Fae Dremock has lived and worked in Paris, Copenhagen, Cairo, and Madison, WI. Her short story "Open at the Throat" won an AWP Intro Journals Project award in 2014. Fae has received fellowships to Tin House workshop and to the Vermont Studio Center artist residency. Her poetry chapbook is published by Dancing Girl Press, and her stories have been published in New World Writing and Artful Dodge, among others. From 2014 to 2022, she taught environmental humanities and justice at Ithaca College. She is the managing editor of Alluvian, an environmental journal of art and writing. She is currently working on a novel about dirt, sex, and scrub oak, and people knee deep in the politics of water.
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