OutWrite presents readings from four authors: Everett Maroon, Risa Denenberg, David Eye & Craig L. Gidney. Moderated by Joe Okonko.
Everett Maroon is a memoirist, pop culture commentator, and speculative fiction writer. He has a B.A. in English from Syracuse University and went through an English literature master’s program there. He is the author of Bumbling into Body Hair and The Unintentional Time Traveler.
Risa Denenberg is a co-founder and editor at Headmistress Press, an independen...
OutWrite presents readings from four authors: Everett Maroon, Risa Denenberg, David Eye & Craig L. Gidney. Moderated by Joe Okonko.
Everett Maroon is a memoirist, pop culture commentator, and speculative fiction writer. He has a B.A. in English from Syracuse University and went through an English literature master’s program there. He is the author of Bumbling into Body Hair and The Unintentional Time Traveler.
Risa Denenberg is a co-founder and editor at Headmistress Press, an independent publisher of books of poetry by lesbians. She has published three chapbooks and two full length books of poetry, most recently, "Whirlwind @ Lesbos" (Headmistress Press, 2016). "A Slight Faith", her third poetry collection, is forthcoming from MoonPath Press.
David Eye's first book of poems, Seed, is forthcoming in 2017 from The Word Works.* The manuscript was chosen by award-winning poet Eduardo Corral for the Hilary Tham Capital Collection. David's chapbook, Rain Leaping Up When a Cab Goes Past, was published in 2013 in the Editor’s Series at Seven Kitchens Press. His poems and prose have appeared or are forthcoming in BLOOM, Cider Press Review, The Good Men Project, Hunger Mountain, Lambda Literary, The Louisville Review, Mayday Magazine, Puerto del Sol, and Stone Canoe, among other journals and anthologies, in print and online.
Craig Laurance Gidney writes both contemporary and genre fiction. He is the author of the collections Sea, Swallow Me & Other Stories (Lethe Press, 2008), Skin Deep Magic (Rebel Satori Press, 2014), and the Young Adult novel Bereft (Tiny Satchel Press, 2013).
Joe Okonkwo's debut novel Jazz Moon, set against the backdrop of the Harlem Renaissance and glittering Jazz Age Paris, was published by Kensington Books in 2016. David Ebershoff, author of The Danish Girl and The 19th Wife has called Jazz Moon "A passionate, alive, and original novel about love, race, and jazz in 1920s Harlem and Paris — a moving story of traveling far to find oneself."
