Readings, In collaboration with White Feather Farm.

Hosted by Nina Shengold with readings from original work by Jai Chakrabarti, Lissa Kiernan, Nina, and Ana C. H. Silva

Jai Chakrabarti, novel A Play for the End of the World, won the National Jewish Book Award for debut fiction, forthcoming story collection A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness (2023), trained computer scientist, born in Kolkata, India. 

Lissa Kiernan’s second full-length poetry collection, The Whispering Wall, won Homebound Publications' Poetry Prize. She founded and directs The Poetry Barn, in West Hurley.

Nina Shengold,  Reservoir Year, A Walker’s Book of Days, Clearcut, a novel, River of Words: Portraits of Hudson Valley Writers with photographer Jennifer May; Fourteen  theatre anthologies, many co-edited with Eric Lane;  plus screen and theatre plays, and profiles of more than 200 writers for Chronogram, Poets & Writers, and Vassar Quarterly,

Ana C. H. Silva won the inaugural Rachel Wetzsteon Memorial Poetry Prize at the 92nd St. Y Unterberg Poetry Center. Her poetry chapbooks are One Cupped Hand Above the Other, with Dancing Girl Press, and While Mercury Fish, with Finishing Line Press.

Pictured: Host Nina Shengold.