A night of readings by poets Elwin Cotman, Brionne Janae, Henry Mills, and Mal Profeta.

Elwin Cotman is a storyteller from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is the author of three collections of speculative short stories, The Jack Daniels Sessions EP, Hard Times Blues, and Dance on Saturday. He is also author of The Wizard's Homecoming (2023, Nomadic Press) and the upcoming collection Weird Black Girls (2024, Scribner). Cotman earned his BA from the University of Pittsburgh and his MFA from Mills College.

Brionne Janae is a poet and teaching artist living in Brooklyn. They are the author of Blessed are the Peacemakers (2021) which won the 2020 Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize, and After Jubilee (2017) published by Boat Press. Brionne is a 2023 NEA Creative Writing Fellow, a Hedgebrook Alum and proud Cave Canem Fellow. Their poetry has been published in Best American Poetry 2022, Ploughshares, The American Poetry Review, The Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, The Sun Magazine, jubilat, and Waxwing among others. Brionne is the co-host of the podcast: The Slave is Gone alongside poet Jericho Brown and Rogue Scholar Aífe Murray. Off the page they go by Breezy.

Henry Mills was born in DC to a Salvadoran mother and a Jewish-American father. His work has appeared in Origins Journal, The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States, and Epiphany Magazine. He received an MFA in poetry from New York University.

mal profeta is a public health advocate and holds an MFA in creative writing from New York University. They received the Fugue Poetry Prize, and their work appears in Aesthetica International Creative Writing Anthology and the University of Canberra International Creative Writing Anthology.