March 11, 2016 @7pm

Tonya Foster, Jenna Lê,

Tonya FosterTonya M. Foster is the author of A Swarm of Bees in the High Court (Belladonna*, 2015) and co-editor (with Kristin Prevallet) of Third Mind: Creative Writing Through Visual Art (Teachers & Writers Collaborative, 2002). Her poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared in Callaloo, The Hat, Western Humanities Review, Gulf Coast, Lungfull, and other journals. A recipient of a Ford Foundation Fellowship, a Magnet Fellowship, and a Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, she is currently a doctoral candidate in the English Program at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She lives in Harlem.

Jenna LeJenna Lê is the author of Six Rivers (NYQ Books, 2011) and A History of the Cetacean American Diaspora (Anchor & Plume Press, 2016). Her poetry, fiction, essays, criticism, and translations appear or are forthcoming in AGNI Online, Bellevue Literary Review, The Best of the Raintown Review, The Los Angeles Review, Massachusetts Review, The Village Voice, and elsewhere. Le is a second-generation Vietnamese-American, born and raised just outside Minneapolis, Minnesota. She holds a BA from Harvard University and an MD from Columbia University and works as a radiologist at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx. Learn more at jennalewriting.com.

Rosanna OhRosanna Oh has had her essays and poetry appear in Best New Poets, Unsplendid, 32 Poems, Verse Daily, and elsewhere. She holds degrees from Yale, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Originally from Long Island, she lives and writes in New York.