Special Events
6 Queer Girls Reading at the FLOOD
Come join us on Friday night, April 10, 2009 at the Phil Mechanic Building. The event kicks off at 7:30 p.m. Beer and wine will be available. Great readers. Come on out!
Arhm Choi says that she is from the slam poetry scene of Ann Arbor, MI, but is getting more confused about to where she owes her allegiances. She was the champion of the Ann Arbor Youth Poetry Slam in 2000, going on to compete nationally at Brave New Voices in Los Angeles. She is currently spending time taking apart tiny broken clocks, helping organize poetry events at the Flood Gallery, and having existential crisis about post-college life.
Becky Upham is a graduate of the UNC-Chapel Hill and holds an MA in Writing from Hollins University. She has been a teacher, cocktail waitress, fitness instructor, mother-of-three, dj, non-profit manager, race director and a drug rep, and now she wants to write a book.
Joanna Knowles, a recent graduate of UNCA, has published various poems and essays in local publications such as the Mountain Xpress and Rapid River. Two of her poems are in the current edition of The Nantahala Review. She was the recipient for the 2007-2008 Topp/Grillot Scholarship for poetry at UNCA and of the Carl Sandberg Award in 2008.
Jen Hilbert is UNCA Creative Writing Graduate who's currently teaching at Eliada Home, and primarily works in creative non-fiction.
Lori Horvitz’ short stories, poetry, and personal essays have appeared in a variety of literary journals and anthologies including The Southeast Review, Hotel Amerika, Thirteenth Moon, Dos Passos Review, and Quarter After Eight. She is an Associate Professor of Literature and Language at UNCA, where she teaches courses in Creative Writing, Literature, and Women’s Studies.
Catherine Reid is on the faculty at Warren Wilson, where she specializes in creative nonfiction. Her published work includes Coyote (Houghton Mifflin), which is part memoir, part natural history, as well as two anthologies, which she co-edited and introduced--His Hands, His Tools, His Sex, His Dress: Lesbian Writers on Their Fathers (Haworth Press), and Every Woman I've Ever Loved: Lesbian Writers on Their Mothers (Cleis).