Location: Constitution Hall, American University Main Campus
Join us for a literary reading with four alumni of American University's MFA Creative Writing program. Refreshments served and book will be available for sale. Doors open at 5:30pm, reading starts at 6:00pm. The readers include:
Tara Campbell is an award-winning writer, teacher, Kimbilio Fellow, fiction co-editor at Barrelhouse, and graduate of American University's MFA in Creative Writing. She teaches flash fiction and speculative fiction at venues such as American University, Johns Hopkins University, Clarion West, The Writer's Center, Hugo House, and the National Gallery of Art. Publication credits include Masters Review, Wigleaf, Electric Literature, CRAFT Literary, Daily Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, and Escape Pod/Artemis Rising. She's the author of a novel, two hybrid collections of poetry and prose, and two short story collections from feminist sci-fi publisher Aqueduct Press. Find her at www.taracampbell.com
Jona Colson's poetry collection, Said Through Glass, won the 2018 Jean Feldman Poetry Prize from the Washington Writers' Publishing House. He is also the co-editor of This Is What America Looks Like: Poetry and Fiction from D.C., Maryland, and Virginia (2021). His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, The Southern Review, The Massachusetts Review and elsewhere. His translations and interviews can be found in Prairie Schooner, Tupelo Quarterly, and The Writer's Chronicle. He is a professor of ESL at Montgomery College in Maryland and lives in Washington, DC. In 2022, he became co-president with Caroline Bock of the Washington Writers' Publishing House and edits the bi-weekly journal, WWPH Writes.
Jonathan Harper is the author of the novel "You Don't Belong Here" and the short story collection "Daydreamers" (a Kirkus Indie Book of the Year for 2015). His writing can be found in such places like The Rumpus, The Rappahannock Review, Chelsea Station, and in numerous anthologies including the Best Gay Stories series. He has worked for AU's Office of Graduate Enrollment since 2007.
Melissa Reddish is the author of three full-length works: "My Father is an Angry Storm Cloud" (Tailwinds Press, 2015), "Girl & Flame" (Conium Press, 2016), and "The Lives We've Yet to Live" (Tailwinds Press, 2022). Her stories have appeared in several literary journals, including Gargoyle, Raleigh Review, and Grist. She has received residencies at Soaring Gardens and the Rensing Center. She lives on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.