Emily Nemens, Alan Grostephan, & Josie Tolin

Sat Feb 28 2026 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm UTC-05:00

1655 McLendon Ave NE | Atlanta

Lostintheletters
Publisher/HostLostintheletters
Emily Nemens, Alan Grostephan, & Josie Tolin
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Join us on Saturday, February 28, for a night of fiction readings!
About this Event

Lostintheletters is overjoyed to celebrate the release of the novel Clutch (Tin House/Zando, 2025) by Emily Nemens with readings from Emily Nemens, Alan Grostephan, & Josie Tolin!


We will have copies of Clutch for sale and host a brief Q&A with the authors after the reading.


About the authors:

Emily Nemens is the author of two novels. Clutch, to be published in February 2026 by Tin House/Zando, is “impressive…. Full of intelligence, social consciousness, and cultural engagement,” according to Kirkus Reviews, while her debut, The Cactus League, was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and named one of NPR’s and Lit Hub’s favorite books of 2020. Emily spent a decade editing literary quarterlies, including leading The Paris Review and serving as co-editor and prose editor of The Southern Review. She teaches in the MFA program at Bennington College and lives in central New Jersey with her husband and dog.


Alan Grostephan is the author of The Banana Wars, winner of the 2025 Georgia Author of the Year Award, and Bogotá, a novel chosen by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best ten books of fiction in 2013 and longlisted for the Pen/Robert W. Bingham Prize. He is the editor and translator of Stories of Life and Death, a collection of writing by emerging Colombian writers. He holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from UC Irvine and is a professor at Agnes Scott College. He lived for years in Colombia where he travels extensively and is currently writing about work, dispossession, and land restitution. He resides in Decatur, Georgia, and is married to the visual artist María Korol.


Originally from Northwest Indiana, Josie Tolin is the 2024-2026 Fiction Fellow at Emory University. Her work has received support from Sewanee Writers Conference, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, The Hambidge Center, and more. Her short stories appear or are forthcoming in Oxford American, The Rumpus, Michigan Quarterly Review, Copper Nickel, Salamander, Five Points, and elsewhere. She is at work on a story collection and a novel.

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1655 McLendon Ave NE, 1655 McLendon Avenue Northeast, Atlanta, United States

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