The Spiral Bookcase will be hosting Medusa's virtual birthday reading on Monday, May 22, at 7 p.m. Eastern.
Ignatius Valentine Aloysius
Kelly DuMar
Leigh Anne Hornfeldt
Julia Leverone
Victoria Mier
Greg Blake Miller
Medusa!
Event by The Spiral Bookcase
You are cordially invited to the one-year anniversary of Raegen M. Pietrucha’s book, “Head of a Gorgon.” We’ll celebrate Medusa’s first birthday with an evening of poetry and magic! Writers, publishers and booksellers that have helped little Medusa grow big and strong will read from selected works, and the evening will conclude with poetry from Raegen herself. We encourage anyone with an interest in poetry, Greek mythology and feminine rage to join us! This event is free to attend and will be hosted on Zoom. Pre-registration on Eventbrite is required.
MORE ABOUT THE READERS:
RAEGEN M. PIETRUCHA writes, edits, and consults creatively and professionally. Head of a Gorgon is her debut full-length poetry collection. Her debut poetry chapbook, An Animal I Can't Name, won the 2015 Two of Cups Press competition, and she has a memoir in progress. She received her MFA from Bowling Green State University, where she was an assistant editor for Mid-American Review. Her writing has been published in Cimarron Review, Puerto del Sol, and other journals. Connect with her at raegenmp.wordpress.com and on Twitter @freeradicalrp.
GREG BLAKE MILLER, Ph.D., is an award-winning writer and editor who teaches literary nonfiction and media studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is also the editorial director of rjmagazine and director of Olympian Creative, a coaching and mentoring service for creative professionals. Honored as Nevada’s Outstanding Journalist, Miller also writes fiction; he is the author of the illustrated short-story collection Decemberlands, and his recent work appears in Red Canary’s Eco Lit series. He is a former staff writer for The Moscow Times and is currently completing a novel set in the 1960s Soviet Union. Learn more at GregBlakeMiller.org.
LEIGH ANNE HORNFELDT’s work has appeared widely in journals including New Southerner, Lunch Ticket, and Spry. She has written three chapbooks, most recently Fleshed (Winged City Press). She is the recipient of the Kudzu prize in poetry as well as the Juliette Miller Scholarship from SAFTA. She lives and writes in North Carolina.
KELLY DUMAR is a poet, playwright and workshop facilitator from Boston. She’s author of four poetry collections, including jinx and heavenly calling, published by Lily Poetry Review Books in March 2023. Kelly teaches a variety of creative writing workshops and runs Play Labs for the International Women’s Writing Guild and the Transformative Language Arts Network. Kelly produces the Featured Open Mic for the Journal of Expressive Writing. Reach her at kellydumar.com
JULIA LEVERONE is a comparatist who has taught writing, literature, culture, and Spanish. Her debut full-length poetry collection, Duo, is forthcoming from Kelsay Books. Her book of translations of selected poetry of Francisco “Paco” Urondo, Fuel and Fire, won a grant from the Argentine government, and her second poetry chapbook, Little Escape, won the 2016 Claudia Emerson Prize from JMWW. She holds a PhD from Washington University in St. Louis and an MFA from the University of Maryland at College Park. She currently lives in the Appalachians, but is native to northeastern Massachusetts and has lived in Dallas. She has served on the editorial staffs of Smartish Pace, Sakura Review, and Asymptote, and is the founder and editor of AzonaL, the online magazine of poetry in translation. Her website is julialeverone.com and she can be found on Facebook and Instagram (@julia.leverone).
IGNATIUS VALENTINE ALOYSIUS earned his MFA in Creative Writing from Northwestern University, where he won the Distinguished Thesis Award for fiction and is currently a lecturer in writing and experimentation there. He is the Twice Pushcart nominated author of the literary novel Fishhead. Republic of Want (Tortoise Books, 2020), and his prose and poetry have appeared in or are forthcoming in Cold Mountain Review, Tofu Ink Arts Press, Trampset, and the Coalition for Digital Narratives, among other venues. A host and curator of Sunday Salon Chicago, a literary reading series in its 17th year, Ignatius is shopping his second novel, a literary/speculative work, and his two poetry collections are under contract with Tofu Ink Arts Press for release in 2023-24. He is currently finishing a poetry collection collaboration with David Allen Sullivan, recent Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz, CA.
FREDDY LA FORCE is the founder and editor of Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, an independent publisher with over thirty books in print, including “Head of a Gorgon.” Learn more at http://vegetarianalcoholicpress.com.
VICTORIA MIER is a disabled writer, independent bookshop owner and suspected changeling. In Victoria’s work, you’ll find strange doors, spilled cups of tea, star-crossed souls, and gloomy train stations. You can read their writing in Del Sol SFF Review, Fifth Wheel Press, Vulnerary Magazine, SORTES Magazine and Luna Luna Magazine. She’s currently working on a full-length manuscript. Learn more at victoriamier.com and follow along on instagram at @victoriamier.
