Join us Tuesday, September 19, 2023, at 7 p.m. Eastern (4 p.m. Pacific) for a reading and conversation with JoeAnn Hart and Genevieve Plunkett. JoeAnn will be reading from her collection of stories, Highwire Act & Other Tales of Survival and Genevieve will be reading from her novel, In the Lobby of the Dream Hotel. Registration is required! Please register (below) to receive the Zoom link.
JoeAnn Hart is the author of the collection of short fiction, Highwire Act & Other Tales of Survival, which won the 2022 Hudson Prize. Publication by Black Lawrence Press in September 2023. Her most recent book is the crime memoir Stamford ’76: A True Story of Murder, Corruption, Race, and Feminism in the 1970s (University of Iowa Press, 2019). Her novels are Float (Ashland Creek Press) a dark comedy about plastics in the ocean, and Addled (Little, Brown) a social satire. Addled was the PEN New England Discovery Award in Fiction in 2004, and Float was presented at the International Literature Festival Berlin in 2017. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in a wide range of literary publications, including the Future Tense column of Slate.com, the anthology Among Animals 3, the anthology Fire & Water: Stories From the Anthropocene, Orion, The Hopper, Prairie Schooner, The Sonora Review, Terrain.org, the anthology Black Lives Have Always Mattered, and others. Her work, which also includes photography and drama, often explores the relationship between humans, their environments, and non-human creatures. She lives in Gloucester, Massachusetts with her husband and some rescue livestock. For more information, please visit her website.
Highwire Act & Other Tales of Survival can be purchased here.
Genevieve Plunkett is the author of Prepare Her: Stories. Her fiction has appeared in The O. Henry Prize Stories and The Best Small Fictions, as well as journals such as New England Review, The Southern Review, Crazyhorse, Colorado Review, and Electric Literature. She lives in Vermont with her two children.
In the Lobby of the Dream Hotel can be purchased here.
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