Readings by:

• Rebecca Faulkner
• Molly Zhu
• Robbie Gamble
• Anna Genevieve Winham
• Kyle Studstill

Bios:

Rebecca Faulkner is a London-born poet based in Brooklyn. The author of Permit Me to Write My Own Ending, (Write Bloody Press, 2023) her work appears in New York Quarterly, The Maine Review, The Poetry Society of New York, CALYX Press, Berkeley Poetry Review and elsewhere. She is a 2023 poetry recipient of the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund for Women, and the 2022 winner of Sand Hills Literary Magazine’s National Poetry Contest. Rebecca was a 2021 Poetry Fellow at the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. She is currently at work on her second collection, exploring female identity and artistic endeavor. www.rebeccafaulknerpoet.com

Molly Zhu is a Chinese American poet and attorney. She likes to write about alter egos, chasms, dreams, tears, rage, translation and the women in her life. She was twice nominated for Pushcart prizes and has been published in both print and online journals including Hobart Pulp, the Ghost City Press, and Bodega Magazine, among others. She serves as assistant poetry editor for Passengers Journal, and she is the winner of the 2021 Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize awarded by the Cordella Press. Her debut chapbook, Asian American Translations, is now available for purchase.

Robbie Gamble is the author of A Can of Pinto Beans (Lily Poetry Review Press, 2022). His poems have appeared in Whale Road Review, Lunch Ticket, Poet Lore, Post Road, Salamander, and The Sun. Robbie was the winner of the 2017 Carve Poetry Prize, and he was a 2019 Robert Taylor fellow at the Kenyon Summer Writers Workshop. His essay “Exit Wound” was cited as a notable essay in Best American Essays 2020. Robbie is the poetry editor for Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices, and he divides his time between Boston and Vermont. www.robbiegamble.com

Anna Genevieve Winham is an award-winning writer who serves as the Development Director for PSNY, the EIC for Passengers Journal, and the Marketing Director for EdTech startup Biblionasium. She also performs in the Poetry Brothel, and she previously edited Oxford Public Philosophy. Anna writes at the crossroads of science and the sublime, cyborgs and the surreal, and you’ll find her work in Ninth Letter, New York Quarterly, the Oxford Review of Books, Brooklyn Magazine, and Meetinghouse Magazine online among others. While attending Dartmouth College (which was the pits), she won the Stanley Prize for experimental essay and the Kaminsky Family Fund Award. She’s working on her novel—ask her about it, if you dare.

Kyle Studstill is a Brooklyn-based performance poet, word artist, and visual artist. His work is about finding deep humility, about reckoning with our own vivid and terrifying self-awareness, and about being better humans in a more-than-human world. His story-driven writing has appeared in Monocle Magazine, CreativeMornings, and Fast Company. His visual art has been featured by NYC street art pillars Up Magazine, Sour Mouse, 188 Allen and Soiree Henzo. His performance poetry has been featured by the Poetry Brothel, Inspired Word NYC, and the New York City Poetry Festival.