Suite C-3B2
Boulder, CO 80304
The Literary Ladies Present F R A M E: Future Flashes Reign in Automatic Momentum in the Epiphany
May 3rd 2024
7-9pm
This event is free and hosted at East Window & Gallery
Curated by Toni Oswald and Sarah Elizabeth Schantz
Jessica Lawson (she/her/hers) is Denver-based writer, teacher, and queer single parent. Her debut book of poetry, Gash Atlas, is a nightmarish cartography of violence from Columbus to Trump, a work that Joyelle McSweeney says “turns the log-book of patriarchy inside out.” Gash Atlas was selected by judge Erica Hunt for the Kore Press Institute Poetry Prize. Lawson’s chapbook, Rot Contracts, explores the heated aftermath of family rupture through the cold lens of the law, asking what we have left when our most primal bonds are broken. Twice nominated for the Pushcart, Lawson’s work has appeared in The Rumpus, Entropy, Paperbag, Dreginald, and elsewhere.
Cyrus Smith-Gathers is a Florida Atlantic University alum and recent graduate of the Regis University Mile High MFA program. His short story Chasing Summer can be found in the latest edition of the North American Review. Cyrus not only writes short stories but also screenplays, having placed in several screenwriting competitions. When he's not writing, he's roller skating, or watching sports, usually college football.
Amber Ridenour Walker is the author of Surfacing (Free Lines Press) and i thought this would be cooler (Bottlecap Press). Her poems, short stories, and essays have appeared in 20 Minutes in Portland: A Special Edition of The Portland Review, Bombay Gin, Local Smoke, 580 Split, Tiny Spoon, Wisdom Body Collective, LEON Literary Review, and various limited edition chapbooks over the years. Amber holds an MFA from The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder, Colorado. She moonlights as a librarian and she almost never visits her hometown of Manson, Washington.
Jennifer Wortman is the author of the story collection This. This. This. Is. Love. Love. Love. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and MacDowell, she lives with her family in Colorado, where she teaches at Lighthouse Writers Workshop and serves as associate fiction editor for Colorado Review.
Toni Oswald is a writer, singer, and visual artist who has performed and shown her work across the United States and Europe. She has released four albums under the altar ego The Diary of Ic Explura & writing publications include The Oyez Review, Bombay Gin, Heroes are Gang Leaders Giantology, The Tattered Press, Zani UK, HOAX & Shame Radiant. She is currently working on a novel about a girl clown set in the 1950s entitled The Gorgeous Funeral, as well as a collection of short stories set in Los Angeles called Dying on the Vine. Her book Sirens, was released by Gesture Press in 2020. She likes gold teeth, cats, and trees, and lives with her husband Max, and their cats Kiki Pamplemousse Fontaine and Charlie Chaplin in Boulder, Colorado
Sarah Elizabeth Schantz is primarily a fiction writer living on the outskirts of Boulder, Colorado with her family in a Victorian-era farmhouse they rent from the city where they are surrounded by open sky, century-old cottonwoods, and coyote. Her first novel Fig debuted from Simon & Schuster in 2015 and was selected by NPR as A Best Read of the Year before winning a 2016 Colorado Book Award. She is currently working on a collection of short stories titled Tales of Dead Children and two novels, Roadside Altars and Just Like Heaven. She teaches creative writing as an adjunct at Naropa University, faculty for Lighthouse, and through her own workshop series and author services, (W)rites of Passage.
Max Davies is known for his diverse musical work on guitar and as a producer and multi-instrumentalist. His music has been featured in Artforum, Guitar World and Guitarist magazines, at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the American College Dance Festival, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, and the Everest Awakening benefit album. He has worked with a variety of artists, musicians, and writers including: Thurston Moore, Anne Waldman, Lydia Lunch, Toni Oswald, Clark Coolidge, Cecilia Vicuna, Eleni Sikelianos Gregory Alan Isakov, and many others.
Leo Reis-Larson Visual art.
