Join us for the Raw Paw reading series. This month’s readers are Ebony Stewart, Tony Cartlidge, and Laura Guli.

Ebony Stewart is the only three-time Slam Champion in Austin, Texas. She has shared stages with Buddy Wakefield and the late Amiri Baraka. Her books are The Queen’s Glory & The Pussy’s Box and Love Letters To Balled Fists. She used to be a sexual health teacher; now, she’s a full time touring artist, writing because she has to and eating cupcakes for fun. Texas raised, “the South is in her.”

Tony Cartlidge is a former marketing and communications writer from Liverpool, England, currently living in exile in Central Texas. At the age of forty, Tony realized he had become only intermittently employable and returned to school where he turned his attention to creative fiction, having shown some talent while writing local news stories and corporate press releases. He approaches the art of writing with the verve and élan of a rat at a cheese typewriter. He hopes one day to fool a publisher into picking up one of his crumbs. Tony shares his Round Rock home with some fish, three dogs, and one wife.

Laura Guli is a poet-psychologist who creates and resides in Austin. Her chapbook, A Fiery Grace, was a finalist in the 2009 Finishing Line Press New Women’s Voices chapbook competition. Her poetry has been published in a number of literary journals, including Kalliope and Lilliput Review. Laura grew up on the east coast and has been writing poetry since age 11. Her poetry is inspired by nature, culture, relationship, and personal musings.