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OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AND LIVE STREAMING | 'Pemi Aguda and Gabrielle Calvocoressi will read from their recent books as part of the Writers Reading series.

’Pemi Aguda is from Lagos, Nigeria. She has an MFA from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. Her debut collection of stories, Ghostroots (Norton, 2024), was a finalist for the 2024 National Book Award in Fiction, the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, the Young Lions Fiction Award, and the PEN/Faulkner Award.

Gabrielle Calvocoressi is the author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart, Apocalyptic Swing (a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize), and Rocket Fantastic, winner of the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. Calvocoressi is an Editor at Large at Los Angeles Review of Books, and Poetry Editor at Southern Cultures. Works in progress include a non-fiction book entitled, The Year I Didn't Kill Myself and a novel, The Alderman of the Graveyard. Calvocoressi was the Beatrice Shepherd Blane Fellow at the Harvard-Radcliffe Institute for 2022 - 2023. Calvocoressi teaches at UNC Chapel Hill and lives in Old East Durham, NC, where joy, compassion, and social justice are at the center of their personal and poetic practice. Their new collection of poetry, The New Economy, will be released from Copper Canyon in 2025.