Tuesday Aug 06, 2024
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
POWERHOUSE Arena
28 Adams Street (Corner of Adams & Water Street across from the Archway)
Brooklyn , NY
11201
About the Book.
About the Author.
Lena Valencia’s fiction has appeared in Ninth Letter, Epiphany, Joyland, the anthology Tiny Nightmares, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a 2019 Elizabeth George Foundation grant and holds an MFA in fiction from The New School. Originally from Los Angeles, she lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she is the managing editor and director of educational programming at One Story and the co-host of the reading series Ditmas Lit.
About the Moderator.
Rachel Lyon is author of the novels Self-Portrait with Boy, a finalist for the Center for Fiction’s 2018 First Novel Prize, and Fruit of the Dead. Her short work has appeared in One Story, The Rumpus, Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, and elsewhere. Rachel has taught creative writing at various institutions, most recently Bennington College; she lives with her husband and two young children in Western Massachusetts.