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We are so looking forward to our December featured authors, Khadijah Z. Ali-Coleman & Emily Mitchell, with host Laura Shovan, and you our lovely audience. About out guests:
Khadija Z. Ali-Coleman
Khadijah Z. Ali-Coleman is author of the published and forthcoming poetry collections Halos for Heroes, Friends and a Few People I Don't Like (2026), A Park Stands on All of Our Graves (2025), For the Girls Who Do Too Much (2024), The Summoning of Black Joy (2023), the children's book Mariah's Maracas (2018) and co-editor of the book Homeschooling Black Children in the US: Theory, Practice and Popular Culture (2022). She served as the second Poet Laureate of Prince George's County, MD from 2023-2025. Based in Baltimore, Maryland, Khadijah Ali-Coleman is a multi genre writer and founding director of Black Writers for Peace and Social Justice, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, and the multidisciplinary arts group Liberated Muse. She is an associate professor in the Humanities department at Coppin State University.
Emily Mitchell
Emily Mitchell is the author of The Last Summer of the World (W. W. Norton, 2007), a novel, and two short story collections, Viral (W. W. Norton, 2015), and The Church of Divine Electricity (University of Wisconsin Press, 2025). Her short fiction has appeared in Harpers’, Ploughshares, The Sun, The Southern Review, The Missouri Review and elsewhere. She serves as fiction editor of New England Review and teaches at the University of Maryland. As well as writing, she likes reading, running, biking, cooking, traveling, studying Spanish, universal healthcare, stopping climate change and, in case that all wasn't nerdy enough, she's recently been getting into birdwatching.
Please spread the word - bring your friends, family, and students. All are welcome. We encourage you to participate in the open mic. Please prepare no more than five minutes of performance time/two poems. Sign up for the open mic when you arrive.
Light refreshments will be served. Books by both featured authors and open mic readers will be available for sale.
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