| Other Info | Prose by Johnathan Crimmins and Scott Henkle, poetry by Jaimie Gusman, Evan Nagle, and Kary Wayson, and Sean Clemmons hosts.
Stories by Jonathan Crimmins can be found in The Laurel Review, Harpur Palate, and on pindeldyboz.com. Currently, he is finishing up a Ph.D. at the University of Washington. He's visiting from Texas.
Jaimie Gusman, former Floridian and former Seattlite, now lives on a dot in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. She teaches English and studies at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu, while working on her first book of poems. Jaimie also runs the M.I.A. Art & Literary Series, a monthly feature of artists across genres, which was created to break the boundaries between academia and the local community.
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Scott Henkle has an MFA in fiction from the University of Washington and teaches at Queens College. Currently pursuing a PhD at the CUNY Graduate Center, he has published work in Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, more than once at Web Conjunctions, and in The Massachusetts Review (PDF), where he was recently nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He lives, with his wife and sons, in Brooklyn.
Evan Nagle is a web developer and a poet and a moderately-trained lover. He makes many of his poems with self-made web/computer contraptions. A select handful of these contraptions have been published in (suckered?) magazines like Fence, Seneca Review, Cranky, DMQ, 2RV, Verse Daily, and elsewhere. He's moving to Honolulu in March of this year.
Kary Wayson's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Crazyhorse, Boston Review, Poetry Northwest, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Nation, The Journal, FIELD, Filter, The Best American Poetry 2007, and the 2010 Pushcart Prize anthology. Kary was a 2003 Discovery/The Nationaward winner, and her chapbook, Dog & Me, was published in 2004 by LitRag Press. Her poem “Lives of Artists” won the 2009 Crazyhorse/ Linda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize, and her first full collection, American Husband, won the 2009 Ohio State University Press/ The Journal Award in poetry. Kary lives and works in Seattle.
Sean Clemmons, the host for this event, won a residency at Djerassi and has fiction published recently, or forthcoming in Copper Nickel, Underground Voices, and Calliope. He earned his MFA from the University of Washington in 2001 and is at work on finishing his second novel.
About the reading series:
The Off Hours Reading Series provides a space for writers with ties to the Seattle area to share new work. As its title suggests, the series is meant to embody the spirit of writers in the off hours, after a creative project has been fully realized, and the party ensues. Held quarterly, the readings are boozy, lively, and have a celebratory feel. Come and raise a glass to the "unexpectedness" found by these writers. It'll be a really great time.
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