Darcie Dennigan presents "Little Neck" with Trace Peterson & Stine An

P&T Knitwear is pleased to welcome Darcie Dennigan to celebrate and read from her new book, Little Neck: a feverish and hypnotic excavation of grief and inheritance, told from the naïve perspective of a girl abandoned in a cemetery as she unearths her sinister family history.

Trace Peterson, author of , and Stine An, author of , will also be reading. Their books will be for sale alongside .

• This is a ticketed in-store event with limited amphitheater-style seating.
• Doors open at 6:30pm.
• Books will be available for purchase at the event.
• Cost of a $5 general admission ticket can be applied towards your purchase.
• Cost of a book bundle ticket reflects the total cost of the feature event book (MSRP plus tax). Each book bundle ticket guarantees ticket holders one (1) copy of the feature event book.
• The talk will be followed by a book signing. Books signed at P&T Knitwear events must be purchased from P&T Knitwear.
• If you would like a signed copy and cannot attend the event, we're happy to take your pre-order. We ship most places!
• We encourage all guests to wear masks.

ABOUT THE READERS

Darcie Dennigan writes novels, poetry, and performance texts. Little Neck is her second work of fiction and was shortlisted for the 2022 New Directions Novel Prize. Her other books include Madame X, as well as Commander!, forthcoming in 2026. Her writing has been recognized by Poets Out Loud, the Howard Foundation, the Poetry Society of America, and the Nation/Discovery prize, and has recently appeared in Chicago Review, Annulet, and Fence.

Stine An is a poet, literary translator, and performer based in New York City whose translations and poems have appeared in Best Literary Translations 2024, Poem-a-Day, The Southern Review, Words Without Borders, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University and is the recipient of fellowships and grants from The Poetry Project, PEN/Heim Translation Fund, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her full-length translations include Today’s Morning Vocabulary by Yoo Heekyung (Zephyr Press, 2025), and her debut poetry collection, B-Dragon Suite, is forthcoming from Nightboat Books.

Trace Peterson is a poet, editor, and literary scholar. Her poetry books include Alma Award-winner The Valleys Are So Lush and Steep (Saturnalia Books 2025) and Since I Moved In (Chax Press 2007/2019). She co-edited the groundbreaking anthology Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books, 2013) and Arrive on Wave: Collected Poems of Gil Ott (Chax, 2016). Peterson also edits EOAGH, a small press and literary journal which has won 2 Lambda Literary Awards and a National Jewish Book Award. Previously the 2021-2022 N.E.H. Post-Doctoral Fellow in Poetics at Emory University's Fox Center, she has more recently been a visiting assistant professor at UConn.

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