Poet Chrissy Martin and Fiction Writer Lauren Osborn
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Join us for a night of dazzling poetry and short fiction, tinged with just the right amount of darkness and charm.
Chrissy Martin is the author of the poetry collection Whole, Holy, Hot (Write Bloody Publishing, 2026). Her work has appeared in Gulf Coast, Cherry Tree, swamp pink, Harpur Palate, and elsewhere, earning nominations for the Pushcart Prize and Best New Poets. She holds a PhD from Oklahoma State University and an MFA from Columbia College Chicago. Co-founder and Poetry Director of Arcturus, she is also an assistant professor of English at Centenary College of Louisiana.
Lauren E. Osborn currently lives and writes in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where she serves as the 2025 Emerging Writer Lecturer at Gettysburg College. Her fiction and nonfiction can be read in the Los Angeles Review, Story, the North American Review, The Adroit Journal, Redivider, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere. She's a graduate of the MFA program at Queen's University of Charlotte and holds a PhD from Oklahoma State University. Her favorite childhood stories are The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak, and the folktales told in the dark to scare children away from the woods in Mississippi, where she was born and which she calls home. Her debut short story collection Entomology of the Pin-Up Girl won the 2024 Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Prize.
Host: Quinn Carver Johnson (they/them) is a poet and printmaker from Tulsa, Oklahoma. They are the author of The Perfect Bastard (Curbstone Books, 2023), winner of the 2024 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ+ Poetry. Their work has also appeared or is forthcoming in World Literature Today, Rappahannock Review, Right Hand Pointing, Cimarron Review, Red Earth Review, Pleiades, and elsewhere and was featured on The Slowdown podcast hosted by Major Jackson.
Chrissy Martin is the author of the poetry collection Whole, Holy, Hot (Write Bloody Publishing, 2026). Her work has appeared in Gulf Coast, Cherry Tree, swamp pink, Harpur Palate, and elsewhere, earning nominations for the Pushcart Prize and Best New Poets. She holds a PhD from Oklahoma State University and an MFA from Columbia College Chicago. Co-founder and Poetry Director of Arcturus, she is also an assistant professor of English at Centenary College of Louisiana.
Lauren E. Osborn currently lives and writes in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where she serves as the 2025 Emerging Writer Lecturer at Gettysburg College. Her fiction and nonfiction can be read in the Los Angeles Review, Story, the North American Review, The Adroit Journal, Redivider, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere. She's a graduate of the MFA program at Queen's University of Charlotte and holds a PhD from Oklahoma State University. Her favorite childhood stories are The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak, and the folktales told in the dark to scare children away from the woods in Mississippi, where she was born and which she calls home. Her debut short story collection Entomology of the Pin-Up Girl won the 2024 Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Prize.
Host: Quinn Carver Johnson (they/them) is a poet and printmaker from Tulsa, Oklahoma. They are the author of The Perfect Bastard (Curbstone Books, 2023), winner of the 2024 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ+ Poetry. Their work has also appeared or is forthcoming in World Literature Today, Rappahannock Review, Right Hand Pointing, Cimarron Review, Red Earth Review, Pleiades, and elsewhere and was featured on The Slowdown podcast hosted by Major Jackson.
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Center for Public Secrets, 573 S Peoria Ave, Tulsa, OK 74120-3826, United States
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