Description
Join award-winning Wisconsin writers for readings at Republic of Letters Books (151 High St.) while in residence at Shake Rag Alley as part of their awards.
Readings begin at 6pm, and will include time for discussion and Q&A.
Free; no registration necessary.
Quan Barry won the Edna Meudt Poetry Book Award. She is the Lorraine Hansberry Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the author of eight books of fiction and poetry, including the recent collection Auction, which the New York Times named one of the 5 best poetry books of 2023. A recipient of NEA fellowships in both poetry and fiction, Barry is currently the writer-in-residence at Forward Theater where her play, The Mytilenean Debate, premiered in the spring of 2022. Barry’s fourth novel, tentatively titled Zero at the Bone, is set in Antarctica and due out from Grove Press in the fall of 2025.