Book Release Party for Carolina Ebeid, with readings by Thirii Myint and Khadijah Queen, Friday, September 30, 2016, 7 p.m.
Please join us this Friday, September 30, 2016, at 7 p.m., for a book release party for Carolina Ebeid’s You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior, with additional readings by Thirii Myint and Khadijah Queen.
Carolina Ebeid is a the author of You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior (Noemi Press, Fall 2016). She is a student in the PhD program in creative writing at the University of Denver, and holds an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers. She has won fellowships and prizes from CantoMundo, Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, the Stadler Center for Poetry, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her work appears widely in journals such as The Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, Colorado Review, and more recent work appears in Linebreak, Bennington Review, jubilat, and in the inaugural Ruth Stone House Reader.
Thirii Myint is a English PhD candidate at the University of Denver and currently serves as the Assistant Editor of the Denver Quarterly. Her short stories have appeared in Caketrain, The Kenyon Review Online, The Collagist and elsewhere and have been translated into and published in Burmese and Lithuanian. Her first book, The End of Peril, the End of Enmity, the End of Strife, A Haven will be published by Noemi Press in early 2018.
Khadijah Queen is the author of five books, including I’m So Fine: A List of Famous Men and What I Had On, due out from YesYes Books in 2017. Her verse play Non-Sequitur won the Leslie Scalapino award for Innovative Women Performance Writers, and was staged at Theaterlab NYC by The Relationship theater company in December 2015. She teaches in the Mile-High MFA program at Regis University and is a first-year doctoral student at the University of Denver.