Autumn House Press, Bull City Press, & Four Way Books come together again for the Bootleg Reading Series 2022!

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Karen Brennan (Four Way)

Karen Brennan is the author of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. A recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts fellowship and an AWP award, she is Professor Emerita of English and Creative Writing at the University of Utah. Since 1991, she has served as core faculty in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, and Television, a memoir is her eighth book.

Sean Cho A. (Autumn House)

Cho A. is the author of American Home, winner of the Autumn House Press Chapbook Prize. His work can be future found or ignored in Copper Nickel, Prairie Schooner, The Massachusetts Review, Nashville Review, among others. Sean is a graduate of the MFA program at The University of California Irvine and a PhD Student at the University of Cincinnati.

Christian J. Collier (Bull City)

Collier is a Black, Southern writer, arts organizer, and teaching artist who resides in Chattanooga, TN. His works have appeared or are forthcoming in Hayden’s Ferry Review,The Michigan Quarterly Review, Atlanta Review, Grist Journal, and elsewhere. A 2015 Loft Spoken Word Immersion Fellow, he is also the winner of the 2020 ProForma Contest and the 2019-2020 Seven Hills Review Poetry Contest. THE GLEAMING OF THE BLADE is the 2021 Editors Selection title.

Carly Inghram (Autumn House)

Inghram is a poet from Atlanta. She received an MFA in poetry from Columbia University. Her work is featured in The Indianapolis Review, Prelude, and elsewhere. Her debut collection, Sometimes the Blue Trees, was released from Vegetarian Alcoholic Press in 2019. She currently lives in Manhattan and teaches Kindergarten in the Bronx.

Caroline M Mar (Bull City)

Mar is the great-granddaughter of a railroad laborer and the author of Special Education (Texas Review Press). A high school health educator in San Francisco, she is doing her best to keep her gentrifying hometown queer and creative. Carrie is a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, an alumna of VONA, and a member of Rabble Collective. She has been granted residencies at Vermont Studio Center and Ragdale. DREAM OF THE LAKE will land in May 2022.

James Fujinami Moore (Four Way)

Moore’s work has appeared in Barrow Street’s 4×2, The Brooklyn Rail, Guesthouse, The Margins, the Pacifica Literary Review, and Prelude. He has received support from Poets House, Bread Loaf, and the Frost Place, and received his MFA from Hunter College in 2016. indecent hours is his debut collection of poetry, and he lives in Los Angeles.


Victoria Redel (Four Way)

Victoria Redel is the author of Paradise, as well as three previous collections of poetry and five books of fiction. A former recipient of Guggenheim and NEA fellowships, she teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.


Rajiv Mohabir (Four Way)

Rajiv Mohabir, an immigrant to the United States, is the author of Cutlish (finalist for the NBCC Award and longlisted for the PEN/Voelcker Prize), The Cowherd’s Son (Tupelo Press 2017), and The Taxidermist’s Cut (Four Way Books 2016), and translator of I Even Regret Night: Holi Songs of Demerara (1916) (Kaya Press 2019). His memoir Antiman (Restless Books 2021) received the Restless Books’ New Immigrant Writing Prize and was a finalist for the PEN Open Book Award. Currently an Assistant Professor of poetry in the MFA program at Emerson College, he lives in the Boston area.

Nicholas Ward (Autumn House)

Ward is a personal essayist, arts administrator, and company member with 2nd Story, a storytelling community. His work has appeared in Catapult, The Billfold, Bird’s Thumb, Midwestern Gothic, Hinterland Magazine, and Belt Publishing’s Chicago Neighborhood Guidebook. He lives in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood, works as the booking manager at Young Chicago Authors, and is a community organizer with the 48th Ward Neighbors for Justice. All Who Belong May Enter is his first collection.