Welcome to The Adroit Journal Issue 52nd Release Reading! The editors of The Adroit Journal are thrilled to welcome you to a reading celebrating the release of our 52nd issue.
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Readers will include:
Shane McCrae
Esther Lin
Eddy Kosik
Kathy Fagan
Ángel García
Jessica Cuello
Reader Bios:
Shane McCrae’s most recent books of poetry are Cain Named the Animal, a finalist for the Forward Prize, and The Many Hundreds of the Scent. His memoir, Pulling the Chariot of the Sun, was published in 2023. Also in 2023, he was awarded the Arthur Rense Poetry Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and his other awards include a Lannan Literary Award and a Whiting Writer’s Award. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. He lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University.
Esther Lin was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and lived in the United States as an undocumented immigrant for 21 years. Her book Cold Thief Place, winner of the 2023 Alice James Award, is forthcoming in March 2025. She is the co-editor of Here to Stay: Poetry and Prose from the Undocumented Diaspora (HarperCollins 2024) and author of The Ghost Wife, winner of the 2017 PSA Chapbook Fellowship. She was a 2019–20 Writing Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown; a 2017–19 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Currently, she co-organizes the Undocupoets, which promotes the work of undocumented poets and raises consciousness about the structural barriers that they face in the literary community.
Eddy Kosik received his MFA in Creative Writing from New York University where he was a Whitehill Fellow. He was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Eddy’s first novel is forthcoming.
Kathy Fagan’s sixth poetry collection, winner of the William Carlos Williams Poetry Prize, is Bad Hobby (Milkweed Editions, 2022), available in print and audio. Sycamore (Milkweed, 2017) was a finalist for the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Award. A 2023 Guggenheim Fellow, she teaches poetry at The Ohio State University, where she co-founded the MFA Program and co-edits The Journal/OSU Press Wheeler Poetry Prize Series.
Ángel García, the proud son of Mexican immigrants, is the author of Indifferent Cities (Tupelo Press, forthcoming), winner of a Helena Whitehill Book award, and Teeth Never Sleep (University of Arkansas Press), recipient of a CantoMundo Poetry Prize, an American Book Award, and finalist for a PEN America Open Book Award and a Kate Tufts Discovery Award. His work has been published in the American Poetry Review, McSweeney’s, Crab Orchard Review, Huizache, The Acentos Review, and most recently in in fugue journal and Sonora Review. He has also received fellowships from CantoMundo, Community of Writers, Vermont Studio Center, and MacDowell. Ángel currently teaches in the MFA Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Jessica Cuello’s most recent book is Yours, Creature (JackLeg Press, 2023). Her book Liar was selected by Dorianne Laux for The 2020 Barrow Street Book Prize. Cuello is the recipient of a 2023 NYSCA Artist Grant and is poetry editor at Tahoma Literary Review. She teaches French in Central NY.