Sunday Reading Series: CD Eskilson, Catherine-Esther Cowie, and Hedgie Choi

Name: Sunday Reading Series: CD Eskilson, Catherine-Esther Cowie, and Hedgie Choi
Start: 2025-08-17T18:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-08-17T20:30:00-05:00
Location: Hungry Brain

Schedule

Sun Aug 17 2025 at 06:30 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Hungry Brain | Chicago, IL

Hedgie Choi is the author of Salvage. She received her MFA in poetry from the Michener Center for Writers at UT Austin and her MFA in fiction from The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins. She lives in Chicago.
Catherine-Esther Cowie is a poet, fiction writer, and visual artist. Her debut poetry collection is Heirloom (Carcanet Press, 2025) and has been shortlisted for the Jerwood Prize (Forward) for Best First Collection. Her poetry has been nominated for AWP Intro Journal, a Pushcart Prize, and Best New Poets 2018 and 2019. Her visual art was nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology 2023. Born and raised on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, she currently resides in Illinois.
CD Eskilson is a trans nonbinary poet and translator. Their work appears in the Kenyon Review, The Offing, Cincinnati Review, among others, and they are the poetry co-editor at Split Lip Magazine. They are a recipient of the C.D. Wright / Academy of American Poets Prize and have been nominated for Best of the Net, Best New Poets, and the Pushcart Prize. CD’s debut poetry collection, Scream / Queen, is now available from Acre Books. Once, they were in a punk band.