Ditmas Lit
Wednesday, December 18th
8:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
From Ditmas Lit:
It's the 8th anniversary of Ditmas Lit! We're so excited to welcome readers:Joan Larkin is the author of six poetry collections, most recently Old Stranger: Poems, as well as Blue Hanuman and My Body: New and Selected Poems. She has received the Audre Lorde Award, the Lambda Literary Award.
She co-founded Out & Out Books during the 1970s feminist literary explosion, co-edited four anthologies, including Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time, and has been a lifelong teacher.
Larkin has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Academy of American Poets, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. She received the 2011 Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.
Photo Credit: Jessica MadavoNina St. Pierre is a queer essayist and culture writer whose work has appeared in Elle, GQ, Harper's Bazaar, The Cut, Gossamer, Outside Magazine, and more.
She is a 2023 New York Foundation for the Arts fellow in Nonfiction Literature, holds an MFA from Rutgers, and lives in Brooklyn. Love is a Burning Thing, a memoir of family, fire, and what it means to believe, is her first book.Ledia Xhoga is an Albanian American fiction writer and playwright. Her debut novel, Misinterpretation (Tin House) is a Finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and a Debutiful Best Book of the Year.
Before getting an MFA in fiction from Texas State University, she worked in publishing in New York City. She has been published in Intrepid Times, Hobart, KGB magazine, and other journals.
Originally from Tirana, Albania, she lives with her family in Brooklyn and the Catskills.
Photo Credit: Todd EstrinJenny Xie is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn. Originally from Shanghai, she graduated from UC Berkeley and earned her MFA at Johns Hopkins University. Her work has appeared in AGNI, Ninth Letter, Joyland, Narrative, and the Best of the Net Anthology.
Jenny is the recipient of a Bread Loaf scholarship and fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is the Executive Editor of Dwell Magazine.
Photo Credit: Cheryl Chan
Ditmas Lit is a monthly reading series in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, dedicated to
showcasing established and emerging writers in all genres.
Location
Urbane Arts Club
1016 Beverley Road between Coney Island Avenue and Stratford Road
Ditmas Park, Brooklyn
https://www.instagram.com/urbane_brooklyn/ 
