Join us Tuesday, February 21 2023, at 7 p.m. Eastern (4 p.m. Pacific) for a reading with Rina Palumbo and Jamie Zvirzdin. Jamie will be reading from Subatomic Writing: Six Fundamental Lessons to Make Language Matter and Rina will be reading from her flash fiction. Registration is required! Please register (below) to receive the Zoom link.

Jamie Zvirzdin researches ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays at the University of Utah and teaches science writing at Johns Hopkins University. She has published work in The Atlantic, Kenyon Review, Brevity, Creative Nonfiction Magazine, CONSEQUENCE, Orion Magazine, and elsewhere. She is the author of Subatomic Writing: Six Fundamental Lessons to Make Language Matter from Johns Hopkins University Press.

Subatomic Writing: Six Fundamental Lessons to Make Language Matter can be purchased here.

Rina Palumbo has a Ph.D. in Early American History from Johns Hopkins University.  Currently, she is working on a novel, Ghost Particles, and two nonfiction pieces, Carapace, and Grotesques. Her flash fiction has appeared in, among others, Ghost Parachute, Milk Candy, and Bending Genres. Her flash nonfiction and creative nonfiction are in or forthcoming or in Stonecoast Review, Identity Theory, and Anti-Heroin Chic, et al. She is the Vice-President of Third Street Writers, offering workshops and open mics. She is also Editor-in-Chief of the forthcoming Third Street Review, a new literary journal seeking the weird, wild and uncanny.

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