Amy Stuber & Friends: Group Reading and Signing

Join us in celebrating the art of the short story with six debut authors. Each will read from their new book for 10 minutes, followed by a book signing.

Amy Stuber is the author of the short story collection, Sad Grownups (Stillhouse Press, 2024). Her writing has appeared in New England Review, Ploughshares, Copper Nickel, American Short Fiction, Best Small Fictions, Flash Fiction America, and elsewhere. She’s the recipient of the 2023 William Peden Prize from the Missouri Review and the 2021 Fiction Prize from the Northwest Review. She holds a PhD in English, works in ed tech, and serves as an editor for Split Lip Magazine.

Nicole Haroutunian (she/her) is the author of the novel-in-stories CHOOSE THIS NOW (Noemi Press, 2024) and the story collection SPEED DREAMING (Little a, 2015). Her fiction has appeared most recently in The Georgia Review and Story. She works in museum education, holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, and lives with her family in Woodside, Queens.

Shannon Robinson is author of The Ill-Fitting Skin, winner of the Press 53 Award for Short Fiction. Her writing has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, The Iowa Review, Joyland, The Hopkins Review, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in fiction from Washington University in St. Louis, and in 2011 she was the Writer-in-Residence at Interlochen Center for the Arts. Other honors include Nimrod's Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction, grants from the Elizabeth George Foundation and the Canada Council for the Arts, a Hedgebrook Fellowship, a Sewanee Scholarship, and an Independent Artist Award from the Maryland Arts Council. She teaches creative writing at Johns Hopkins University.

Ananda Lima is the author of Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil (Tor Books) and Mother/land (Black Lawrence Press), winner of the Hudson Prize. Her work has appeared in four chapbooks, including Amblyopia (Bull City Press), and publications such as The American Poetry Review, Poets.org, Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, Witness, and elsewhere. She has served as a mentor at the New York Foundation for the Arts Immigrant Artist Program and currently serves as a Program Curator at StoryStudio Chicago and a Contributing Editor at Poets & Writers. She has an MA in Linguistics from UCLA and an MFA in Creative Writing in Fiction from Rutgers University, Newark. Craft, her fiction debut, has received starred reviews from Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly, and Library Journal, which described it as “one of the most original and unforgettable reads of the year.” Originally from Brazil, she lives in Chicago.

Janelle Bassett is the author of the story collection THANKS FOR THIS RIOT, winner of the Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize in Fiction. She edits fiction for Split Lip Magazines and lives in St. Louis.

Nick Rees Gardner is a writer, critic, writing teacher, and beer and wine monger. His books include So Marvelously Far, (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2019), an accounting of addiction and recovery in the Rust Belt; Hurricane Trinity (Unsolicited Press, 2023), a climate change novella, and Delinquents and Other Escape Attempts (Madrona Press, 2024), a collection of linked short stories. He has received support from the Elizabeth George Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, the De Groot Foundation, and DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. He lives in Ohio and Washington, DC.

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