Shannon Robinson presents THE ILL-FITTING SKIN

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Shannon Robinson joins us in Remington to read from and discuss her debut short story collection The Ill-Fitting Skin!

Shannon will be in conversation with Baltimore authors Danielle Evans (The Office of Historical Corrections, Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self), Dora Malech (Flourish, Stet, Say So, and Shore Ordered Ocean), Katie Moutlon (Dead Dad Club: On Grief & Tom Petty), and Jane Satterfield (The Badass Brontes, Apocalypse Mix, Her Familiars, and Assignation at Vanishing Point).

ABOUT THE ILL-FITTING SKING

The Ill-Fitting Skin is layered with surreal story telling but remains an extraordinarily realistic read, in the sense that even the most solid realities of life—and death—tend to blur and shimmer at their raw edges. The talkative bird that nests in a woman’s womb is as real as the “previous tenant.” The love of a mother for her uncontrollable son is as real as the wildness that is in her too. The women of The Ill-Fitting Skin are real women—who work and grieve and create and destroy, who love and do not love, whether at the roll of the dice or because “the pages are paths, and you will have to choose among them.”

The Ill-Fitting Skin releases on Tuesday, May 3, 2024, and is available for pre-order at greedyreads.com!

Shannon Robinson:Shannon Robinson is author of The Ill-Fitting Skin, winner of the Press 53 Award for Short Fiction. Other honors include grants from the Elizabeth George Foundation and the Canada Council for the Arts, a Hedgebrook fellowship, a Sewanee scholarship, and an Independent Artist Award from the Maryland Arts Council. She teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.

Danielle Evans is the author of the story collection Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, winner of the 2021 Joyce Carol Oates Prize, the PEN America PEN/Robert W. Bingham prize, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the Paterson Prize, and a National Book Foundation 5 under 35 honoree. Her stories have appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including The Best American Short Stories. She teaches in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.

Dora Malech:
Dora Malech’s fifth book of poetry, Trying × Trying, is forthcoming in 2025. Her poems have appeared in publications that include The New Yorker and Best American Poetry. She is editor in chief of The Hopkins Review and associate professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.

Katie Moutlon:
Katie Moulton is the author of the audio-memoir Dead Dad Club: On Grief & Tom Petty. Her essays and stories have appeared in The Believer, New England Review, Salon, Oxford American, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from MacDowell, Bread Loaf, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, and Virginia Center for Creative Arts. She teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.

Jane Satterfield:
Jane Satterfield’s five poetry books include The Badass Brontës (Diode Editions Poetry Prize) and Apocalypse Mix (Autumn House Poetry Prize). A professor of writing at Loyola University Maryland, she's received an N.E.A. poetry fellowship, the Bellingham Review’s 49th Parallel Award, and the Ledbury Poetry Festival Prize, among other honors.

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