Join us for a night of chaps and broads reading chap(book)s and broad(side)s! Featuring Julie Poole, Stephanie Goehring, Leticia Urieta, Katy Chrisler, Alfredo Aguilar, and C. Prudence Arceneaux.

Julie Poole (top row, left) received a MFA from the University of Texas at Austin. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, CutBank, The Texas Observer, and Denver Quarterly. Her first book Bright Specimen was inspired by the Billie L. Turner Plant Resources center at UT and will be published by Deep Vellum in Spring 2021.

Stephanie Goehring (top row, middle) is the author of several poetry chapbooks. She earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and works at Malvern Books in Austin, TX.

Leticia Urieta (top row, right) is proud Tejana writer from Austin, TX. She works as a teaching artist in the Austin community. She is a graduate of Agnes Scott College and holds an MFA in Fiction writing from Texas State University. Her chapbook, The Monster, is out now from LibroMobile Press.

Katy Chrisler (bottom row, left) received her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has held residencies with Land Arts of the American West and 100 West Corsicana. Recent work of hers has appeared in Tin House, Conflict of Interest, The Volta, and Black Warrior Review. She currently lives and works in Austin, Texas.

Alfredo Aguilar (bottom row, middle) is the son of Mexican immigrants. He is the author of the chapbook What Happens On Earth (BOAAT Press 2018). He is a winner of 92Y’s Discovery Poetry Contest and has been awarded fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, and the Frost Place. His work has appeared in The Shallow Ends, Best New Poets 2017, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. Originally from North County San Diego, he now resides in Texas.

C. Prudence Arceneaux (bottom row, right), a native Texan, teaches English and Creative Writing at Austin Community College, in Austin, TX. Her poetry has appeared in various journals, including Limestone, New Texas, Whiskey Island Magazine, Hazmat Review and Inkwell. A chapbook of her work, DIRT (2017), was awarded the Jean Pedrick Prize.