This year Melanie and I had hoped to attend the largest conference for creative writers–the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) in Portland at the end of March. We wanted to promote Plume and we also wanted to hang with fellow writers, many of them colleagues from grad school who’ve gone on to other parts of the country. It wasn’t in cards this year, but we’re participating from afar.
We’re hosting the furthest away off-site literary event to take place during the AWP Conference The event will feature four women writers from Albuquerque reading their work at Red Door Brewing in downtown Albuquerque, 1,361 miles from the conference site.
5:30-7:30- pm, Saturday, March 30
at Red Door Brewing
400 Gold Ave. ,SW downtown Albuquerque
Michelle Otero, Albuquerque’s Poet Laureate, will be featured along with Nora Hickey, Jenn Krohn, and Jennifer Schaller, who are all graduates of the University of New Mexico’s MFA program.
Beer, Spoken Word, Community, Snacks! it just doesn’t get any better….
(must be over 21 to attend)
ABOUT THE WRITERS
MICHELLE OTERO is Albuquerque’s poet laureate. She is the author of Malinche’s Daughter, an essay collection based on her work with women survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault in Oaxaca, Mexico as a Fulbright Fellow. Her work has appeared on the Modern Love Podcast and in New Mexico Magazine, Brevity, and El Malpaís Review. Originally from Deming, New Mexico, Michelle holds a B.A. in History from Harvard University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Vermont College.
NORA HICKEY is originally from Milwaukee, WI, she now lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. A graduate of Kalamazoo College and University of New Mexico, her poetry has appeared in Narrative, The Massachusetts Review, Mid American Review, DIAGRAM, and other journals. She is member of the Dirt City writers collective and teaches at University of New Mexico.
JENNIFER LYNN KROHN was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She earned her MFA from the University of New Mexico, and she currently teaches English at Central New Mexico Community College. She was the winner of The Golden Key’s 2017 Flash Fiction Contest and has published work in Coffin Bell: A Journal of Dark Literature, Storm Cellar, and Tinderbox Poetry Journal among others.
JENNIFER JORDÁN SCHALLER is a writer and teacher living in Albuquerque. Her writing has appeared in Sonora Review, Ascent, and This American Life, among other places. She also has a forthcoming essay in Creative Nonfiction. She is a graduate of the University of New Mexico’s MFA program, she is currently working on her first book, a manuscript of nonfiction about recovering from an anxiety disorder while learning to parent.