Reading: Teresa Carmody, Sarah Gerard, poupeh missaghi, Friday, October 24, 2025, 7pm
Join us for a celebration of Teresa Carmody’s new collection of autofictions: A Healthy Interest in the Lives of Others. Here, gossip becomes archive, friendship a form of care, labor a poetics, queerness and community a map for survival. With Teresa Carmody, Sarah Gerard, and poupeh missaghi. Join us at Counterpath (7935 E. 14th Ave., Denver) for readings and a conversation around these themes. The evening is free and open to all.
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Teresa Carmody (she/they) is the author of four books, including A Healthy Interest in the Lives of Others (2025), The Reconception of Marie (2020), Maison Femme: a fiction (2015), and Requiem (2005; reissued by Punctum Books in 2025). Their novella Today Must Be Sunday appears in Agency 3: Novellas (Baobab Press, 2025). A co-founding editor of Les Figues Press and co-founding coordinator of Ladyfest 2000, Carmody lives in Nebraska, where they teach at the University of Nebraska Omaha.
Sarah Gerard is the author of Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession, an NPR Best Book of the Year; the essay collection Sunshine State, a New York Times Critics’ Choice; the novella Binary Star, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Prize; two chapbooks; and the novel True Love. Her short stories, essays, interviews, and criticism have appeared in The New York Times, Granta, The Baffler, Vice, BOMB Magazine, and numerous anthologies. She lives in Denver.
poupeh missaghi is a writer, editor, translator (between English and Persian) and educator. Her books include Sound Museum (2024) and trans(re)lating house one (2020), both with Coffee House Press. Her translations include Boys of Love by Ghazi Rabihavi (University of Wisconsin Press, 2024), In the Streets of Tehran by Nila (Bonnier Books, 2023), and I’ll be Strong for You by Nasim Marashi (Astra House, 2021). She is currently an assistant professor of English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver, and a faculty mentor at the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing at the Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR.