Free Creative Writing Panel at Tattered Cover Aspen Grove
About this Event
Julia Cohen, Joanna Howard, Khadijah Queen, and Meca'Ayo (poets, writers, and creatives on all fronts!) are joining us on Friday, September 18th at 6 pm at our Aspen Grove location!
This event includes an opportunity to meet the writers and participate in an audience Q&A after the panel. Photos are welcome!
We may have a limited supply of additional books for guests to purchase in store.
ABOUT THE PANELISTS
Julia Cohen is the author of I Was Not Born (Noemi Press, 2014), a collection of lyric essays, which was translated into German and released by Literaturverlag Droschl. She’s also written two books of poetry, Collateral Light (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2014) and Triggermoon Triggermoon (BLP, 2011). Her nonfiction and poetry appear in issues of The Georgia Review, Southeast Review, The New England Review, Fugue, Heavy Feather Review, Boston Review, and BOMB. She is the Director of Writing Across the Curriculum at Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design, where she teaches creative writing, literature, and composition.
Joanna Howard is a writer and translator from Miami, Oklahoma. She is the author of Porthole (McSweeney's, 2025), the memoir Rerun Era (McSweeney’s, 2019), the novel Foreign Correspondent, and the story collections On the Winding Stair and In the Colorless Round, the latter of which was illustrated by Rikki Ducornet. She also cowrote Field Glass, a speculative novel, with Joanna Ruocco. Her work has appeared in Conjunctions, The Paris Review, Verse, Bomb, Flaunt, Chicago Review, The Brooklyn Rail, and parts elsewhere. She is a Professor of Creative Writing at Denver University.
Khadijah Queen is the author of eight books of poetry and prose, most recently Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, a memoir about her service in the U.S. Navy alongside brief histories of maritime women, published by Legacy Lit/Hachette Books in August 2025. With K. Ibura, she co-edited Infinite Constellations (FC2 2023), a multi-genre anthology of speculative writing by authors from the global majority. Individual works appear in Ploughshares, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Harper’s Magazine, LitHub, The Poetry Review (UK) and widely elsewhere. In 2025 the Foundation for Contemporary Arts recognized her work with the Cy Twombly Award in Poetry. Her next book is Black Women Writers At Work in the 21st Century (Haymarket February 2027), a collection of interviews with esteemed Black women/femme authors. Queen holds a PhD in Literary Arts from University of Denver.
Meca'Ayo is a multi-genre writer, itinerant nerd, sound maker, massage therapist, zine maker, and point and shoot art dabbler who currently lives in Denver, Colorado. Their writing and photography have been featured in literary magazines, art exhibits, newspapers, and other venues and publications on and offline. Some publications of art and writing include DARIA Art Magazine, Femme Salée, Denver Westword, East Window, Rigorous Magazine, The Colorado Independent, Heavy Feather Review, Lambda Literary, just femme & dandy magazine, Inverted Syntax, Full Stop Literary Reviews and Ottawa Design Club. Many of their works implement improvisation and collaboration. Collaborative projects include work with Cellists for Change, Adams County public arts events, and anthology zines and postcards featuring collaborative poetry. Meca’Ayo completed their MFA in poetry and fiction at Regis’ Mile-High MFA program in 2018. Their first book, an identity polyptych, debuted from The Elephants in 2021. Meca’Ayo was a finalist for poet laureate in Adam’s County and in the state of Colorado in 2023. They are a current artist resident at CAST 108 Arts Studios in Englewood, Colorado. They are the founder and lead of Colorado Poetry Calendar. Meca’Ayo has worked in the healing arts since 2011.
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