Michael Dumanis, Sabrina Orah Mark, and Emily Nemens

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AND LIVE STREAMING | Michael Dumanis, Sabrina Orah Mark, and Emily Nemens will read from their recent books as part of the Writers Reading series.

Michael Dumanis was born in the Soviet Union. His two books of poems are Creature (Four Way, 2023), a finalist for the Vermont Book Award, the Big Other Book Award, and the National Jewish Book Award; and My Soviet Union (University of Massachusetts Press), winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry. Additionally, he co-edited the anthology Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande). He is on the Literature Faculty of Bennington College and the editor of Bennington Review.

Sabrina Orah Mark is the author of the poetry collections The Babies and Tsim Tsum. Wild Milk, her first book of fiction, was published by Dorothy, a publishing project. Happily, which began as a monthly column on fairytales and motherhood in The Paris Review, was published by Random House in 2023 and won a National Jewish Book Award. She has received fellowships from the Creative Capital Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Sustainable Arts Foundation, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Emily Nemens is the author of the novels The Cactus League (2020) and Clutch, which will be published next year. Emily spent a dozen years editing literary quarterlies, including leading The Paris Review, which won its first American Society of Magazine Editors’ Award for Fiction under her tenure; she also served as co-editor of The Southern Review. She held the 2022-23 Picador Professorship at the University of Leipzig and teaches community-based fiction workshops.