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Join the Center for Literary Arts, the Allegany County Public Library System, the Lewis J. Ort Library, and Savage Mountain Punk Arts for a reading by Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh. Horikoshi Roripaugh (she/they) is a biracial Nisei and the author of five volumes of poetry, most recently tsunami vs. the fukushima 50 (Milkweed Editions, 2019), named a “Best Book of 2019” by the New York Public Library and listed as a poetry finalist in the 2020 Lambda Literary Awards. Her fiction collection, Reveal Codes, winner of the Moon City Press Short Fiction Award, was published by Moon City Press in 2023, and their chapbook, #stringofbeads, a winner of the Diode Chapbook Competition, was published by Diode Press in 2023. Her book of lyric essays, unMothered, unTongued, winner of the Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction in the 2024 AWP Award Series, was published by the University of Georgia Press in September 2025.
Horikoshi Roripaugh received the Association of Asian American Studies Book Award in Poetry/Prose for 2004 and was a 1998 winner of the National Poetry Series. Seven of their essays have been listed as Notable Essays in Best American Essays, and her poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared in Kenyon Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, American Poetry Review, Story Magazine, Terrain.org, Hotel Amerika, and North American Review, among others.
This reading is part of the Western Maryland Independent Literature Festival (Indie Lit), a weekend celebrating the writers, publishers, and readers of small press and independent publishing.
This event is free and open to the public. Please support Main Street Books as they support literary events in Western Maryland.
Main Street Books is accessible to individuals with disabilities. For additional information, call 301.689.5605.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Main Street Books, 2 East Main Street ,Frostburg, Maryland, United States
