GAMUT: Jeanne Heuving, Amanda Dawn Benningfield, & Zyaire Cheathem

Elliott Bay Book Co. and Gamut present OFFICE HOURS: A Reading Series

The fourth and final evening of collaboration between University of Washington Botherll faculty and students, and a celebration of the quarter!

Jeanne Heuving, Amanda Dawn Benningfield, and Zyaire Cheatham read from and discuss the role of senses and memory in their select work. This is followed by a discussion and Q&A.

Jeanne Heuving is a writer and scholar. She recently published Indigo Angel (Black Square Editions, 2023). Comprised of three books—Mood Indigo (Selva Oscura 2019), Brilliant Corners (Chax 2022) and Air Time—Indigo Angel takes its lead from different jazz modalities as these ray out into other arts, the natural world and human history. Her Crypta will be out from selva oscura press later this year. She is the editor of Nathaniel Mackey, Destination Out: Essays on His Work (U of Iowa Press, 2021), and the co-editor, along with Tyrone Williams, of Inciting Poetics: Thinking and Writing Poetry (Recencies Series, University of New Mexico Press, 2019). Heuving's The Transmutation of Love and Avant-Garde Poetics is in the Modern and Contemporary Poetics series (University of Alabama Press 2016). Her cross genre book Incapacity (Chiasmus Press) won a 2004 Book of the Year Award from Small Press Traffic. Heuving founded the MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics at UW Bothell and served as its first director. She is the recipient of grants from the Fulbright Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, Simpson Humanities Center, and the Beinecke Library at Yale. She was the 2021- 2022 Judith E. Wilson Fellow in Poetry, Cambridge University (UK).

Amanda Dawn Benningfield is a writer from Boise, Idaho. They hold a BA in Film and Television from Boise State University and are currently pursuing their MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics from the University of Washington Bothell. With a background in screenwriting, they work to blend together the sensory memory of watching a a cult-classic flick with the playfulness of prose and poetics.

Zyaire Cheatham is a writer from Seattle, Washington, whose work explores memory, the body, family, and the quiet moments that shape who we become. Zyaire's work blends reflection with narrative, capturing the complexity of love, absence, and survival. They are currently focused on developing short fiction and personal essays.

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