Winter Reading!

Join us at Village Well Books & Coffee for a panel of readings from a diverse range of authors, in the fields of fiction, poetry, essay, and more! Sidle up with a hot glass of cider and get cozy for this enlightening and entertaining conversation.

About the participants:

Greg Mania is a writer whose words have been published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, HuffPost, and elsewhere. He is the author of the celebrated debut memoir, Born to Be Public, which was named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR, O, The Oprah Magazine, Electric Literature, among others. He lives in Los Angeles, where he co-hosts Empty Trash, a bi-monthly reading series.

Genevieve Hudson is the author of the novel Boys of Alabama, which was a finalist for the 2021 Oregon Book Award and the short story collection Pretend We Live Here, which was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. Their work has appeared in Elle, Oprah Magazine, Tin House, McSweeney’s, Bomb, Electric Literature, and other places. They've received fellowships from the Fulbright Program, MacDowell, Caldera Arts, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, and the Vermont Studio Center. They teach Creative Writing in the MFA Program at Antioch University, Los Angeles and also work in advertising.

Tomas Moniz is a Latinx writer living in East Oakland, CA. His debut novel, Big Familia, was a finalist for the 2020 PEN/Hemingway and the LAMBDA. His new novel, All Friends Are Necessary, is out now from Algonquin Books. He teaches at Berkeley City College and the Antioch MFA program. He has stuff on the internet but loves penpals: PO Box 3555, Berkeley CA 94703. He promises to write back.

Morgan Parker is a poet, essayist, and novelist. She is the author of the young adult novel Who Put This Song On? and the poetry collections Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé, and Magical Negro, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship and winner of a Pushcart Prize, Parker has been hailed by The New York Times as “a dynamic craftsperson” of “considerable consequence to American poetry.” She received her Bachelor’s in Anthropology and Creative Writing from Columbia University and her MFA in poetry from NYU. Parker is a Cave Canem graduate fellow and creator and co-curates the Poets With Attitude (PWA) reading series with Tommy Pico. With Angel Nafis, she is The Other Black Girl Collective. She lives in Los Angeles with her dog, Shirley.

Host or Publisher Village Well Books & Coffee