Join us for a reading from poets Heather Tone, Grace Ortman, and Joanna Kaminski (left to right, below).

Heather Tone is the recipient of the 2015 APR/Honickman First Book Prize for her collection Likenesses (Copper Canyon Press). She is also the author of a chapbook, Gestures (The Catenary Press). Her poetry has appeared in The Boston Review, The Colorado Review, Fence, and other journals. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she now lives in Austin.

Grace Ortman writes poems, lyrical essays, the occasional homily, and short short stories. She holds an MFA from the University of Montana and has published poems in publications such as Octopus Magazine, Play/No Play, The Concher, and Copper Nickel. She teaches Creative Writing, English, and Comparative Religion courses at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School here in Austin, Texas.

Joanna I. Kaminski received her MFA from Washington University in St. Louis. Her poems have appeared in Crazyhorse, Indiana Review, Privacy Policy: An Anthology of Surveillance Poetics, among other places. She has an upcoming publication in The Southern Review. Joanna works at UT and runs a monthly-ish poetry bookclub that you should ask her about.