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.
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.
Esra Jackson is a poet and undergraduate senior graduating in May from the University of Missouri in Columbia with a BA in English and Art. Their work has been published in Divinations Magazine and LITERATURE EMITTING DIODES, a project under Partial Press. They are the editor-in-chief of the undergraduate literary and arts publication EPICMagazine. Starting this upcoming fall, they will be an MFA candidate at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.
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.
