The editors of The Adroit Journal are thrilled to welcome you to a reading celebrating the release of our thirty-eighth issue. Readers include issue contributors Julia Guez, Corey Van Landingham, Patricia Liu, Emilia Phillips, Laura Van Prooyen, Tucker Leighty-Phillips, Spencer Reece, and Chris Santiago. The reading will be hosted on Zoom by Peter LaBerge, founder and editor-in-chief of The Adroit Journal.
Julia Guez is a writer and translator based in Brooklyn. Her essays, interviews, fiction, poetry and translations have appeared in Guernica, POETRY, The Guardian, BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail and Kenyon Review. Four Way Books released her first full-length collection, In An Invisible Glass Case Which Is Also A Frame, in 2019. Her next book, The Certain Body, will appear in 2022.
Corey Van Landingham is the author of Antidote, winner of the 2012 The Ohio State University Press/The Journal Award, and Love Letter to Who Owns the Heavens, forthcoming from Tupelo Press. She is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Illinois.
Patricia Liu is a senior at Harvard College, studying English and East Asian Studies. Her poetry appears or is forthcoming in POETRY, The Cincinnati Review, and The Colorado Review. She is from Oklahoma.
Tucker Leighty-Phillips is currently an MFA candidate in Creative Writing (Fiction) at Arizona State University, where he is a Teaching Assistant as well as the Web Editor of Hayden’s Ferry Review. Previous editorial positions include stints at West Branch and the Adroit Journal. He holds degrees from Bucknell University and Harrisburg Area Community College, where he received his BA and AA, respectively. His work has been anthologized in Best Microfiction and received a Notable Mention from Best American Sports Writing.
Emilia Phillips (they/she) is the author of four poetry collections from the University of Akron Press, including Embouchure (2021), and four chapbooks. Winner of a 2019 Pushcart Prize and a 2019–2020 NC Arts Council Fellowship, Phillips’s poems, lyric essays, and book reviews appear widely in literary publications including Agni, American Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, The Kenyon Review, New England Review, The New York Times, Ploughshares, Poetry, and elsewhere. She’s a faculty member in the MFA Writing Program and the Department of English and cross-appointed faculty in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at UNC Greensboro.
Laura Van Prooyen is author of three collections of poetry: Frances of the Wider Field (Lily Poetry Review Books) Our House Was on Fire (Ashland Poetry Press) nominated by Philip Levine and winner of the McGovern Prize and Inkblot and Altar (Pecan Grove Press). She is also co-author with Gretchen Bernabei of Text Structures from Poetry, a book of writing lessons for educators of grades 4-12 (Corwin Literacy). Van Prooyen is the Managing Editor for The Cortland Review, she teaches in the low-residency MFA Creative Writing program at Miami University and is the founder of Next Page Press: www.nextpage-press.com. She lives in San Antonio, TX. www.lauravanprooyen.com
Spencer Reece is the author of The Road to Emmaus (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014). He is the national secretary for the Bishop of the Episcopal Church in Madrid, Spain.
Chris Santiago is the author of Tula, winner of the 2016 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry, selected by A. Van Jordan. His poems, fiction, and criticism have appeared in FIELD, Copper Nickel, Pleiades, and the Asian American Literary Review. He holds degrees in creative writing and music from Oberlin College and received his PhD in English from the University of Southern California. The recipient of fellowships from Kundiman and the Mellon Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies, Santiago is also a percussionist and amateur jazz pianist. He teaches literature, sound culture, and creative writing at the University of St. Thomas. He lives in Minnesota.
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