The irrepressible Tyler Gobble hosts our monthly reading series, Everything is Bigger, which features prose and poetry and prizes! This month’s readers are Trey Moody, Nick Courtright, and Thomas Courtney Vance.

Trey Moody is the author of Thought That Nature (Sarabande Books, 2014), selected by Cole Swensen for the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry. His poems have appeared in Best New Poets 2009, Boston Review, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Indiana Review, and Washington Square. He lives in San Marcos, Texas.

Nick Courtright’s second book, Let There Be Light, is out now from Gold Wake Press. Punchline, his 2012 release, was a National Poetry Series finalist. His poetry has also appeared in many literary journals, including The Southern Review, AGNI, Kenyon Review Online, and Boston Review. In Austin, Texas, he is a freelance writing coach who also teaches university-level Creative Writing, Classicism, Romanticism, and Writing for Publication, among other literature and writing courses.

Thomas Courtney Vance’s writing appears or will appear in Revolution House, North American Review, Independent Ink, and Unstuck. She’s a fellow at the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin.