Amber Caron, Jia Oak Baker, and Hugh Ryan
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OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Alumni Fellows Amber Caron, Jia Oak Baker, and Hugh Ryan will read as part of the Writers Reading Series. Please note later start time.
Amber Caron is a fiction writer whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in PEN America Best Debut Short Stories, Southwest Review, Kenyon Review Online, AGNI, and The Greensboro Review. She is the recipient of a PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, the McGinnis-Ritchie Award for fiction, and a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation.
Jia Oak Baker is a poet and photographer from Phoenix, Arizona. Her poetry chapbooks are Crash Landing in the Plaza of an Unknown City and Well Enough to Travel. She is the recipient of the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Award and an artist grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts.
Hugh Ryan is a writer based in Brooklyn, whose book, When Brooklyn Was Queer, is due out in March of 2019 from St. Martin's Press. He is the recipient of the 2016-2017 Martin Duberman Fellowship at the NYPL, a 2017 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Nonfiction Literature, and a 2018 residency at The Watermill Center.