We are excited to invite you to a reading and conversation with three talented writers: Marcela Fuentes, Shannon Robinson, and Khaliah Williams. Marcela Fuentes is a Pushcart Prize-winning fiction writer and essayist. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and was the 2016-2017 James C. McCreight Fiction Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in prestigious literary journals such as the Indiana Review, The Rumpus, Texas Highways Magazine, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and others. Her story "The Observable World" was included in the Pushcart Prizes 2023: Best of the Small Presses 2023 Edition. Fuentes was born and raised in Del Rio, Texas, and her debut novel MALAS will be out on June 4th from Viking Books. Readers can also look forward to her story collection, My Heart Has More Rooms Than a Whorehouse, in 2025. Shannon Robinson's debut short story collection, The Ill-Fitting Skin, is the winner of the Press 53 Award for Short Fiction. Her writing has appeared in prestigious literary journals such as The Gettysburg Review, The Iowa Review, Joyland, Water-Stone Review, Nimrod, and failbetter. Robinson holds an MFA in fiction from Washington University in St. Louis and was the Writer-in-Residence at Interlochen Center for the Arts in 2011. She has received numerous honors, including Nimrod's Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction, grants from the Elizabeth George Foundation and the Canada Council for the Arts, a Hedgebrook Fellowship, a Sewanee Scholarship, and an Independent Artist Award from the Maryland Arts Council. She currently teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. Khaliah Williams is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and received her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her fiction has been published in Hawaii Women's Journal, Frontier Psychiatrist, and Day One, and her non-fiction has appeared in Buzzfeed, American Short Fiction, Salon, and Book Country. Her story "Carnage" is forthcoming in the Hopkins Review. Williams is a Kimbilio Fellow and an Instructor and Advisory Board member of Writers in Baltimore Schools. Originally from Philadelphia, she lives in Baltimore where she is a College Advisor for Baltimore City Schools. She is currently working on a novel about race, college admissions, and independent school culture. We are thrilled to have these three exceptional writers come together for a reading and conversation. This event promises to be an engaging and enlightening exploration of their diverse literary works and perspectives. Don't miss this opportunity to hear from these talented authors and participate in the discussion. Click the link to RSVP and join us for this exciting event.