Poetry & Prose Reading Series

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The Poetry & Prose Reading Series is presented by the UH Libraries in cooperation with the Creative Writing Program.

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Sam Dinger
(2014-09-17) Dinger, Sam
Will Burns
(2014-09-17) Burns, Will
Will Burns (PhD, Fiction) received his BA from the University of Arkansas and his MFA from The New School in NYC. He is a part- time chess instructor and used to be a cashier. His car broke down while moving to Houston. It was too bad. He likes cats.
Jonathan Meyer
(2014-09-17) Meyer, Jonathan
Erika Jo Brown
(2014-09-17) Brown, Erika Jo
Erika Jo Brown (PhD, Poetry) is from New York. Her debut po- etry collection, I’m Your Huckleberry, was published Brooklyn Arts Press in November 2014. Her chapbook, What a Lark!, was published by Further Adventures Press in 2011. She was educated at Cornell University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She loves feminism, botany, wordplay, and her shih tzu, Franklin.
Georgia Pearle
(2014-09-17) Pearle, Georgia
Born and raised in the Gulf South, Georgia Pearle (PhD, Poetry) is an alumna of Smith College and holds an MFA in Poetry from Lesley University. Her poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from Kenyon Review Online, Ninth Letter, and terrain.org, among others. Formerly the Digital Editor for Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts and a coordinator of The VIDA Count, she received 2018 Inprint Marion Barthelme Prize in Creative Writing and holds a CLASS Dissertation Completion Fellowship. She is at work on a collection of poems as well as a memoir.
Luisa Muradyan-Tannahill
(2014-09-17) Muradyan-Tannahill, Luisa
Luisa (PhD, Poetry) is originally from the Ukraine and received her BA in History from the University of Kansas and MFA in Poetry from Texas State University. Her poems can be found in Blackbird, Ninth Letter, West Branch, Mudlark, PANK, A-Minor, Neon, and Anderbo.
Joshua Gottlieb-Miller
(2016-10-12) Gottlieb-Miller, Joshua
Joshua Gottlieb-Miller received an MFA in poetry from the University of Houston; after a few cold years up north he has returned for his PhD. Previously he served as Poetry Editor for Gulf Coast and was awarded an Inprint Barthelme Prize in Poetry. Since then his work has appeared in Four Way Review, Pleiades, The Ilanot Review, Radar, Blackbird, and elsewhere.
Novuyo Tshuma
(2016-10-12) Tshuma, Novuyo
Novuyo Tshuma is a writer from Zimbabwe. Her collection, Shadows – a novella and short stories – was published by Kwela (South Africa 2013) and awarded the 2014 Herman Charles Bosman Prize. She earned her MFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Maytag Fellow and a recipient of a Rydson Award.
Saira Nadeem
(2016-10-12) Nadeem, Saira
Saira Nadeem graduated from the University of Houston in 2013 with her BA in Creative Writing and a minor in sales from the Program for Excellence in Selling. Since then, she has worked with the Stephen Stagner Sales Excellence Institute at UH where she coaches undergraduate students on key account management. Prior to working for the institute, Saira was involved with various nonprofit literary marketing projects with Writers in the Schools and also managed film promotions for a local theater. When she’s not helping her students find jobs, she can be found dragging her husband to her favorite Pakistani restaurants and trying to teach her chocolate lab to sit.
Cait Weiss
(2016-10-12) Weiss, Cait
Cait Weiss is a Los Angeles native, a New Yorker by heritage, an Ohioan by heart &, finally, a Texan by luck. She has led creative writing workshops at The Ohio State University, Young Writers Workshop, New York Writers Coalition and, starting this fall, WITS. Her work has been or soon will be published in Boston Review, FIELD, Hobart, Tupelo Quarterly, pacificREVIEW, The Notre Dame Review, JUKED, & more.
Rachel Ballenger
(2016-10-12) Ballenger, Rachel
Rachel was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has a BA in English from UC Berkeley. Before moving to Houston, she lived in a trailer in Sonoma County, homesteading a meadow by trial and error. She is honored to join the writing community at UH.
Charlotte Wyatt
(2016-10-12) Wyatt, Charlotte
Charlotte Wyatt Prior to attending the University of Houston, cougars have figured prominently in Charlotte’s past—particularly Kelly, Cleo, and Felix of the Queens Zoo, where she worked as a keeper for the Wildlife Conservation Society. She holds a BA in Philosophy and Theater from Fordham University, and hails most recently from California wine country, where she developed programming for the Boys & Girls Club and poured wine for Balletto Vineyards. She currently serves as Admissions Director for the Napa Valley Writer’s Conference.
Barbara Drumheller
(2016-10-12) Drumheller, Barbara
Barbara Drumheller graduated with a BA in Literature and a BBA in Finance from the University of Texas. She went from there to Texas Tech University in Lubbock where she earned a J.D. She spent quite a few years writing other people’s stories in the form of criminal appellate briefs, first as a prosecutor and later as a defense attorney. Recently, she decided to switch gears and begin writing her own stories. She has an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Jenny Staff Johnson
(2016-10-12) Johnson, Jenny Staff
Jenny Staff Johnson is a lifelong Houstonian. Her fiction and essays have appeared in publications including in Tin House’s Open Bar Blog, Literary Mothers, and New Dead Families. She holds a Master of Public Affairs from the University of Texas at Austin and previously worked in government and journalism.
Niki Herd
(2016-10-12) Herd, Niki
Niki Herd grew up in Cleveland and earned degrees in Creative Writing from the University of Arizona and Antioch University. Nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize, she is the recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her work has been supported by the Astraea Foundation and the DC Commission on the Arts, and has appeared in several journals and anthologies including Feminist Formations, North American Review, The Feminist Wire, Split This Rock, and Resisting Arrest: Poems to Stretch the Sky. Her debut collection of poems, The Language of Shedding Skin, was published as part of Main Street Rag’s Editor’s Select Series. She has spent the last five years living in Washington, DC.
Dallas Saylor
(2016-10-12) Saylor, Dallas
Dallas Saylor just finished his BA in English and Mathematics at Messiah College in Mechanicsburg, PA, and has now returned not only to the south, where he lived until high school, but also to his namesake state, where he attended kindergarten and first grade. In his free time, Dallas enjoys board games, cooking, and swing dancing. He’s getting married this New Year’s Eve in Pennsylvania, where he and his bride will throw their greatest New Year’s party yet at a swing dance club in York.
Laura Biagi
(2017-09-19) Biagi, Laura
Laura is a first-year MFA in fiction at UH. She grew up in small-town Kentucky, earned her BA in Creative Writing and Anthropology from Northwestern University, and most recently worked as a literary agent in New York City.
Kaj Tanaka
(2017-09-19) Tanaka, Kaj
Kaj Tanaka's stories have been featured in Longform, selected for Wigleaf’s Best (Very) Short Fictions, and nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He is the nonfiction editor for BULL Magazine.
Richard Thompson
(2017-09-20) Thompson, Richard
Richard Thompson grew up in rural Nova Scotia, Canada. He has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from McGill University in Montreal. He won the 2016 Mary C. Mohr Poetry Award from the Southern Indiana Review, and his poems (some of which do not relate to farming accidents) have also appeared in Empirical Magazine, The Rectangle, and The Avenue.
Brendan Stephens
(2017-09-20) Stephens, Brendan
Brendan Stephens received his MFA from the University of Central Florida. His work is forthcoming or published in the Southeast Review, Carolina Quarterly, and elsewhere. Currently, he is a PhD student at the University of Houston.

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