Get your cones ready for another round of Malvern Books’ FREE reading series, I SCREAM SOCIAL, hosted by Malvern’s own Annar Veröld and Schandra Madha. Featuring women-identified writers from the Austin community (and beyond!), this month’s I Screamers are Zoë Fay-Stindt, Alana Torrez, Desiree Morales, and Vivé Griffith.
Zoë Fay-Stindt was simultaneously raised in the boondocks of North Carolina and a small village in the south of France. She is a 2017 Pushcart Prize nominee, and her work has appeared in Winter Tangerine, GAUGE, The Ocotillo Review, and Black Napkin Press, among others. After earning her bachelor’s degree at Emerson College, she left Boston for the welcoming warmth of the heartland, where she has since served as program specialist for Clemente affiliate Free Minds, organizing community writing workshops and finding new students for the adult college course. When she’s not writing, you’ll find her marveling at parakeets or eating peanut butter cup ice cream at Sweet Ritual.
Alana Torrez is a native Austinite and I Scream diehard. She is currently finishing up her MFA at Texas State University, and holds out hope that the inanimate objects she talks to on a regular basis will someday talk back. Her favorite flavor of ice cream is whatever they serve in the WorryFree warehouses.
Desiree Morales is an educator, poet, and activist from Southern California, where she earned her BA in Creative Writing and Linguistics from Pitzer College. Since coming to Austin in 2010, she’s created and led programs that have served nearly 10,000 low income children in Travis County. She currently oversees a pilot project in Austin ISD offering entrepreneurial learning opportunities to students in South Austin and participates in the Cultural Proficiency and Inclusiveness initiative. Her work has appeared in What Rough Beast, Truck: I35 Creativity Corridor, and Conflict of Interest. Has yet to meet a coconut/non-dairy ice cream she doesn’t like, though chocolate is pretty great!
Vivé Griffith’s poetry and essays have appeared in The Sun, Oxford American, River Teeth, Hippocampus, and at the Blanton Museum. Her op-eds and advocacy pieces have been published in the Washington Post, Texas Tribune, Statesman, and Huffington Post. She is a voice for educational equity, a zealous sharer of poems, and a maker of first-class soups. When it comes to ice cream, a good chocolate gelato makes any summer evening better.
~7pm – Ice cream & Open Mic for women-identified and non-binary writers. We want a chance to hear everyone’s wonderful work, so please try to keep readings under 3 minutes.
~The featured reading begins after the open mic and will be followed by even more ice cream.
Can’t make it this time around? No worries. I Scream Social is every month ’til the end of time.
YES! Want to read again at Malvern