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Join us on August 27 at Fort Greene for the next installment of the Reading Den series.The event is free to the public and begins at 7pm. We are no longer requiring free registration for our events. Just show up and enjoy the readings and community.
Mariah Rigg is a Samoan-Haole who was born and raised on the island of O‘ahu. She is the author of the short story collection EXTINCTION CAPITAL OF THE WORLD, and the chapbook ALL HAT, NO CATTLE . Her work has been featured in Oxford American, The Sewanee Review, Joyland, and elsewhere. In 2024, she was awarded a fellowship in creative writing from the National Endowment for the Arts. She holds an MFA from the University of Oregon and a PhD from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. In the fall, she will be a visiting fellow at Mount Holyoke College.
Nini Berndt is a graduate of the MFA program in Fiction at the University of Florida and the author of the debut novel There Are Reasons for This (a Best Debut of 2025 from Debutiful!). Her short work has appeared in One Story, The Southampton Review, Subtropics, Split Lip, Adroit, Passages North, and elsewhere. She teaches at Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver, where she lives with her wife and son.
Edward Hamlin is the author of Sonata in Wax. He is the winner of the Nelson Algren Award, the Iowa Short Fiction Award, the Nelligan Prize and the Colorado Book Award. Pulitzer Prize finalist Karen Russell called Edward’s short story collection, NIGHT IN ERG CHEBBI, “sweeping and intimate and awesomely confident,” while Story Prize winner Jim Shepard found it “beautifully written and politically astute.”
Emily Wortman-Wunder is the author of the story collection Not a Thing to Comfort You, winner of the 2019 Iowa Fiction Award and the 2020 Colorado Book Award, and finalist for the High Plains Book Award. Her stories and essays have been published in the Colorado Review, Guernica, High Country News, and elsewhere, and have been recognized by Best American Essays and nominated for two Pushcart Prizes. Her work explores the emotional resonance of place by drawing on history, ecology, landscape art, and folklore. She teaches scientific writing at the University of Colorado Denver and is at work on a novel.
Matt Broaddus is the author of two poetry collections, Temporal Anomalies and Deeper the Tropics. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, Fence, and The Paris Review. He is a student in the PhD program in Creative Writing at University of Denver and serves as an advisory poetry editor for The Paris Review.
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321 E 45th Ave, Denver, CO, United States
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