Saturday February 22 * 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS

Vanessa Saunders is a professor of practice at Loyola University New Orleans. Her feminist, experimental novel, The Flat Woman, won the Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize with Fiction Collective 2 and was published by University of Alabama Press. Her writing has appeared in Writer's Digest, Seneca Review, Los Angeles Review, Sycamore Review, Passages North, The Writer’s Chronicle, and [PANK] among others. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, she received her MFA from Louisiana State University.

K. Lorraine Graham is a poet, diviner and mixed media artist inspired by everyday life and family history. She makes a mix of abstract and representational pieces that evoke introspection and self-analysis. Lorraine grew up all over the world in Papua New Guinea, Chile, Mexico, China and Maine, and studied east Asian studies and Chinese at George Washington University before getting an M.F.A. at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of The Rest Is Censored (Bloof Books) and Terminal Humming (Edge Books), and an artist book of drawings called Semiotic Squares (Primary Writing). Her work has been featured at the Kreeger Museum, Stable Arts, and But, Also. She lives in Washington, D.C. Follow her on instagram @klorrainegraham.