In lieu of our previously planned Literary Night, canceled due public health concerns, we present to you a virtual reading of local authors instead!
Please tune in by clicking here: https://youtu.be/BZDdNd6EbhY
Featuring:
Wilnona & Jade
Jade is the 2019 Poet of the year, and Wilnona is Advocate Awarded. Both ladies recently accepted the job as US correspondents for UK tv show Chrissy B on Sky TV. They recently made the list of 20 Iconic Authors according to Every Writers Resource Magazine. The duo has contributed writings to eleven books: The And I Thought Series & The Miss-Fit Guides. Jade and Wilnona are the Co-Founders of The Inspirational Women in Literature Media and Journalism Awards, The Thoughtful Book Festival, the 25 Hottest Authors Magazine & And I Thought Literary Magazine. They starred in docuseries Just Writin Life about authors. They will be starring in the film Create Aspire& Inspire.They co-hosted conferences on three continents.
Kate Reed Petty
Kate is the author of "True Story," published by Viking on August 4, 2020. Her fiction and essays have been published online by Electric Literature, American Short Fiction, Blackbird, Nat. Brut, the Los Angeles Review of Books blog, and Ambit. Her work has been supported by a Rubys Grant from the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, a Tennessee Williams Scholarship to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and a creative residency at Bloedel Reserve; in 2018 she was a writer-in-residence at The Mount (Edith Wharton’s home in Massachusetts).
In addition to fiction, Kate’s short films have appeared on Narrative magazine and at the 2019 Maryland Film Festival.
Amy Bernstein
Amy L. Bernstein writes about the intersection of politics and culture for the stage and the page. Theater productions include the Dada-inspired Terminal Lucidity; Raw, produced as part of the 2015 Women’s Voices Festival; and Exit Pluto. Selected short plays are published by Routledge and Leicester Bay Theatricals, and short fiction by Flying Ketchup Press. Amy’s novel, Ell, will be published in 2020 by Scarsdale Publishing. She is a 2014 recipient of a Ruby Artist Award from the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance. She lives and writes in Baltimore, MD.
Patti Ross aka Little Pi
Patti Ross is a local spoken word artist - who uses the pseudonym 'little pi' in homage to her great great grandmother. In addition to her spoken work she writes poetry and has been published in the local literary journal Pen-In-Hand. Patti runs a local poetry critique group in Howard county and will embrace writing full-time in June 2020.
Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez
Born in Puerto Rico and raised in the mainland United States, Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez graduated with a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) and is a VONA Voices Alumna, having worked with award winning poets Willie Perdomo and Danez Smith. Tatiana currently performs, teaches poetry workshops, and hosts events in the greater Washington DC area, having previously done so in New York, Philadelphia, Miami, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic at venues including New York University, The Kennedy Center, and The Howard Theatre. You can read her work in The Acentos Review, Here Comes Everyone, and Queen Mob’s Teahouse, among other publications. She is the author of Coconut Curls y Café con Leche, her debut full length poetry collection, and the chapbook, Despojo.
Christine Higgins
Christine Higgins is the author of the full-length collection, Hallow (Cherry Grove, 2020). Her latest chapbook, Hello Darling, was the second-place winner in the 2019 Poetry Box competition. Her work has appeared in Pequod, America, Windhover, Nagautuck River Review, and PMS (poemmemoirstory) She is the recipient of two Maryland State Arts Council Awards for both poetry and non-fiction. Higgins is a McDowell Colony Fellow and a graduate of
The Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars.