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OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AND LIVE STREAMING | Garrard Conley, Thomas Grattan, and Lance Richardson will read from their recent books as part of the Writers Reading series.

Garrard Conley is The New York Times bestselling author of the memoir Boy Erased and the novel All the World Beside, as well as the creator and co-producer of the podcast UnErased: The History of Conversion Therapy in America. His work has been published by The New York Times, Oxford American, Time, and Virginia Quarterly Review, among others. He is an assistant professor of creative writing at Kennesaw State University.

Thomas Grattan is the author of the novels The Recent East and In Tongues, both published by MCD Books/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. His work has been a New York Times editor’s choice, nominated for the PEN/Hemingway Award, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Prize, and nominated for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. His writing has appeared in several publications, including One Story, Slice, and The New York Times Book Review. Grattan received his MFA from Brooklyn College. He lives in New York City and upstate New York.

Lance Richardson is the author of True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen, which will be published internationally in October. His first book, House of Nutter: The Rebel Tailor of Savile Row, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and recognized as one of the notable books of 2018 by The Sunday Times, Esquire, and the American Library Association. He is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, the Leon Levy Center for Biography, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.