Grolier Hybrid Reading — Diana Cao, Perry Janes and Margaret Ray (Zoom 2024)

Grolier Poetry Book Shop Presents a Hybrid Reading featuring Diana Cao, Perry Janes and Margaret Ray featuring an introduction by Arielle Kaplan

November 21, 2024 at 7 pm

Diana Cao’s poetry and fiction have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review, The Yale Review, The Georgia Review, and elsewhere. She has received support from MacDowell, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and she is Just Buffalo Literary Center’s 2024 Poetry Fellow, selected by Megan Fernandes. Her first chapbook, Relational, is out with Sixth Finch, and her debut full-length collection, Slipstream, won the 2024 Berkshire Prize at Tupelo Press, selected by Matthew Rohrer.

Perry Janes is the author of the poetry collection Find Me When You’re Ready (Northwestern University Press/Curbstone Books). A recipient of the Pushcart Prize, his work has appeared in POETRY, Electric Literature, Poem-a-Day, Zyzzyva, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College and currently lives in Los Angeles, where he works as a screenwriter.

Margaret Ray grew up in Gainesville, Florida. She is the author of GOOD GRIEF, THE GROUND (BOA Editions, 2023, winner of the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize selected by Stephanie Burt) and the chapbook SUPERSTITIONS OF THE MID-ATLANTIC (2022, selected by Jericho Brown for the 2020 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship Prize). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Best New Poets 2021, The Nation, Threepenny Review, Narrative, and elsewhere. A winner of the Third Coast Poetry Prize and a shortlister for the Montreal International Poetry Prize, she holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College and teaches in New Jersey. She’s on Twitter (for now) @mbrrray, on Instagram (sometimes) @m_rrray, and you can find more of her work at margaretbray.com