SUGARBLOOD
LOS ANGELES LAUNCH
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SATURDAY ~ MARCH 31ST
6PM
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SUGARBLOOD is making its L.A. debut! Join Liz Bowen in introducing her little red wolf poems to the West Coast—just in time for the book's first anniversary. Come say hi IRL, pick up a book, and/or have your mind blown by this dream lineup of readers:
FEATURING:
Liz Bowen
Wendy C. Ortiz
Elizabeth Hall
Nadia de Vries
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Nadia de Vries's first full-length poetry collection, Dark Hour, was published by Dostoyevsky Wannabe in February 2018. Recent publications include MINERVA Platform, Dream Pop Journal, Queen Mob's Teahouse, Arachne, and Shabby Doll House. She also writes essays in Dutch.
Elizabeth Hall is the author of the book-length essay, I Have Devoted My Life to the Clitoris (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2016). She lives on a crumbling bluff in San Pedro, California, is the author of the chapbook Two Essays (eohippus labs), and plays bass in the band Pine Family.
Wendy C. Ortiz is a Los Angeles native. She is the author of Excavation: A Memoir (Future Tense Books, 2014), Hollywood Notebook (Writ Large Press, 2015), and the dreamoir Bruja (CCM). In 2016 Bustle named her one of “9 Women Writers Who Are Breaking New Nonfiction Territory.” Her work has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, The Rumpus, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and the National Book Critics Circle Small Press Spotlight blog. Her writing has appeared in such venues as The New York Times, Joyland, StoryQuarterly, and a year-long series appeared at McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. Most recently her “Urban Liminal” series of texts appear alongside signature graphic representations of the projects of Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects in the book Amplified Urbanism (2017). Wendy is a psychotherapist in private practice in Los Angeles.
Liz Bowen is a writer and literary scholar living in New York. She is the author of Sugarblood (Metatron 2017) and the chapbook Compassion Fountain (Hyacinth Girl 2018), and her poetry and essays can be found in Boston Review, Cosmonauts Avenue, The Atlas Review, Dream Pop Press, and glitterMOB. She is a Ph.D. candidate in English and comparative literature at Columbia University, where she is working on a dissertation that traces disability and animality as intertwined sites of literary experimentation in the long twentieth century. She also teaches undergraduate writing, works on the poetry staff at Anomaly, and cares for a rescue pit bull named Rosie.
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