Aerie Literary Showcase!

Join us on July 11th from 4-5pm as we partner with the Wheeler School to bring you another Aerie Literary Showcase. Signed copies of each book will be available for purchase.

About Aerie Literary Press:

Aerie Literary Press is devoted to publishing outstanding works of poetry, fiction, memoir, and drama. We feature exceptional literature that explores the intersection of consciousness and the world we live in. With each book published, our goal is to foster a rich appreciation of common human experience and forge dialogue that nourishes insight and engagement with the world. We champion outstanding writers at an early stage who appeal to adventurous readers seeking fresh, underrepresented, and diverse voices. We believe works of literature cultivate reader consciousness and enrich the wider culture.

Our mission is to publish stories and poems that excavate the illusory world of literary fiction–––tragic, comic, mysterious, heartfelt–––that traverse emotional and intellectual landscapes, arriving at fundamental insights, driven by the sound and rhythm of narrative with a clear-eyed objective: to connect with our readers.

Within our pages, all the work of Wheeler’s Aerie students is exceptional writing–––filled with humor, irony, and angst–––that informs and entertains in equal proportion. Our writers mine everything from observing delphiniums, to changing traffic lanes, to sauntering along the Seine, personalizing the meaning of faith, loss, love, perseverance, identity; what it means to be authentic. They also probe ideas of home, family, responsibility, the liberating hope of tomorrow. There are also stories that question life and death, self-destructive behavior, race, gender, and sexuality; and on the lighter side, there is humor, lots of humor, as well as requisite fantasies teeming with all manner of supernatural occurrence!

Our imprint features the owl, traditionally representing or accompanying Athena, goddess of wisdom, or Minerva, her syncretic incarnation in Roman mythology. Our bird is stamped into our books for a purpose: to promote insight, knowledge, positive transformation, and intuitive development.

About the authors:

Lina Durfee is a writer and dancer. She is drawn to memory, identity, and the often overlooked moments that shape how we see ourselves and the world, working across poetry, prose, playwriting, essays, short stories, and novellas. Her writing has been recognized by the Scholastic Writing Awards, Trinity Rep's Write Here! Write Now!, School One's Write RI, and the Maureen Kenner Memorial Poetry Competition, coming in First Place. immanence is her second collection of poems and other writings. Lina will be attending Stanford in the fall.

Anna Kleinberg is a writer, artist, and musician. She has been recognized for her poetry, short stories and plays, most recently as a winner of Trinity Rep's one-act playwriting contest where her play "The Interview" was performed on the main stage in front of a live audience by Trinity Rep actors. Night after Night is her first collection of stories and poems. Anna will be attending the University of St. Andrews in September.