Thursday, April 17: 9-10 pm stop-gap projects (810 E Walnut St, Columbia, MO)
Free and open to the public but space + seating is very limited!
ABOUT THE AUTHORS Chloe Chun Seim was raised on a small farm outside Salina, Kansas. She received her BFA in Art History from the University of Kansas and her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Missouri, Kansas City. Chloe resides in Lawrence, Kansas, and edits Snarl, a Journal of Art and Literature. Her fiction has appeared in literary journals including LitMag, McNeese Review, Potomac Review, North American Review, and more. Her illustrated novel-in-stories, CHURN, will be published by Texas Review Press in Fall 2023.
Jennifer Maritza McCauleyis a writer, poet, and university professor. She has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in prose, Kimbilio, CantoMundo and the Sundress Academy for the Arts. She holds an MFA from Florida International University and a PhD in creative writing and literature from the University of Missouri. She has received awards from the Independent Publisher Book Awards, Academy of American Poets and Best of the Net and was a finalist for the Prairie Schooner Book Prize and Big Moose Prize (Black Lawrence Press) in fiction and longlisted for the Aspen Words Prize and the Reading the West Book Awards. She has received 13 Pushcart Prize nominations and a Pushcart Prize Special Mention for her poetry, fiction and hybrid work. She has been published in or has forthcoming publications in Boston Review,Passages North, Puerto del Sol, Afro-Hispanic Review, Vassar Review, Columbia Journal, The Texas Review, The Breakbeat Poets: LatiNext, Deep South Magazine, Jabberwock Review, The Feminist Wire, Split this Rock, Verse Daily, Connotations Press, and Latinas: Protests and Struggle among other places. She has been on staff at Pleiades (Fiction Editor, current), The Missouri Review (Poetry Editor, Contest Editor), Origins Literary Journal (Poetry Editor), Gulf Stream Magazine (Staff) and Florida Book Review (Contributing Editor.) She is the author of the cross-genre collection SCAR ON/SCAR OFF, the short story collection When Trying to Return Home, the poetry collection KINDS OF GRACE (‘24) and the speculative fiction collection NEON STEEL (2/26). SCAR ON/SCAR OFF received an Independent Publishers Book Award in poetry and her story collection When Trying to Return Home was an Editors’ Choice from The New York Times, a Must Read of 2023 by the Chicago Public Library, Elle, a best fiction book of the year by Kirkus Reviews and Most-Anticipated by Today. She has led workshops at the Yale Young Writers’ Workshop 2023, Yale Writers’ Workshop 2024, Inprint Houston, Reading Queer, Miami Book Fair and other places, and she previously taught creative writing and literature at University of Houston-Clear Lake. Dr. McCauley is presently an assistant professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Creative Writing program.
Caylin Capra-Thomas is the author of Iguana Iguana, out in July, 2022 from Deep Vellum Press, as well as two chapbooks: Inside My Electric City, available from YesYes Books, and The Marilyn Letters, available through dancing girl press. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including New England Review, 32 Poems, Pleiades, The Journal, Copper Nickel, and elsewhere. She is the winner of Harpur Palate‘s Milton Kessler Memorial Prize, Raleigh Review’s 2019 Laux/Millar Prize, Fairy Tale Review‘s 2018 Poetry Award, The Baltimore Review‘s 2017 Summer Contest and Yemassee’s 2016 Nonfiction Prize. The recipient of fellowships and residencies from The Vermont Studio Center, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and The Studios of Key West, she served as the 2018-2020 poet-in-residence at Idyllwild Arts Academy and is now living in Columbia, MO, where she is a student in the University of Missouri’s PhD in English program, studying poetry and nonfiction.
Jared McCormack grew up in small-town Missouri. After college, he spent several years living, teaching, and writing in Taiwan, Argentina, Spain, and South Korea before returning to his home state to earn an MFA in Creative Writing and Media Arts at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He lives and writes fiction in Columbia, MO where he hosts and co-produces the MFA Writers podcast and teaches digital storytelling at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
