James Ciano & Rose McLarney

Lostintheletters is overjoyed to host James Ciano and Rose McLarney for live readings on Friday, May 15!

About the authors:

James Ciano is the author of The Committee of Men (Boa Editions, 2026), and an Associate Editor of Swirl & Vortex: Collected Poems of Larry Levis (Graywolf, 2026). He holds a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Southern California, and his poems have appeared in The Southern Review, Bennington Review, The Hopkins Review, The Missouri Review, and The Yale Review. His reviews and writings on poetry have appeared in The Adroit Journal, Poetry Northwest, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. He is the 2025-2027 Creative Writing Fellow in Poetry at Emory University, and lives in Decatur, Georgia.

Rose McLarney's collections of poems are Colorfast, Forage, and Its Day Being Gone, from Penguin Poets, as well as The Always Broken Plates of Mountains, published by Four Way Books. A book of lyric essays, Rubble Masonry, from LSU Press, is her newest release. She is co-editor of A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia, from University of Georgia Press, and the journal Southern Humanities Review. Currently, she is Lanier Endowed Professor of Creative Writing at Auburn University.

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