Join us at Orr Street Studios at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 29, for readings of poetry by Elizabeth Hatmaker and fiction by J. Bowers.
ELIZABETH HATMAKER
Elizabeth Hatmaker is the author of Girl in Two Pieces (BlazeVOX 2010), which was nominated for a Los Angeles Times book award. Her poetry is featured in Life As We Show It: Writing on Film
(City Lights 2009), ACM, Bird Dog, Epoch, MiPOesias, Mandorla,
Mississippi Review, Mirage/Periodical and Projector Magazine. She teaches writing, cultural studies, film and urban education at Illinois
State University in Normal, Illinois. She is currently at work on her second
collection of poetry The Electric Nostalgia
Coffin.
J. Bowers’s short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Portland Review, cream city review, Redivider, The Indiana Review and other
nationally circulated journals. She holds a B.A. in English and creative
writing from Goucher College and an M.A. in the same from Hollins University.
She is currently a Ph.D. candidate (ABD) at the University of Missouri, working
on a collection of short historical fiction about horses, film, photography,
death and obsolescence. In her free time, she likes to think about the hungry
ghosts of silent Hollywood while she rides her little yellow pony through the
totemic Missouri wilderness.
Orr Street Studios is located at 106 Orr St. in downtown Columbia, Mo. Join us every Tuesday evening during the academic year for literary readings and visual-arts presentations.
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