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Authors, Alyssa Perry and Daisy Atterbury will read from their newest work.

Alyssa Perry is a writer, editor, and teacher from Iowa. She is the author of Oily Doily (Bench Editions, 2024). Her writing appears with Annulet, The Canary, Coma, Fence, Mercury Firs, River Styx, the Experimental Sound Studio, and other venues. Perry is poetry editor at the Cleveland Review of Books and an editor at the small press publisher Rescue Press. She is an alum of the Writers' Workshop and lives in Ohio, teaching at the Cleveland Institute of Art. 

Daisy Atterbury is a poet, essayist and scholar. The Kármán Line (2024), a St. Lawrence Book Award Finalist and debut book of experimental prose and poetry, was published by Rescue Press in October, 2024. Described as "a new cosmology" (Lucy Lippard) and "a cerebral altar to the desert" (Raquel Gutiérrez), The Kármán Line investigates queer life and fantasies of space and place with an interest in unraveling colonial narratives in the American Southwest.

Atterbury is the Director of Undergraduate Studies and holds a full-time joint lectureship in the Department of American Studies and the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program at the University of New Mexico. 

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