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Please join us for our reading with Austin Carder and Emily Skillings.

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Emily Skillings

Emily Skillings was born in Brunswick, Maine, and received degrees from The New School (B.A. in Dance and Writing, 2010) and Columbia University School of the Arts (M.F.A. in Poetry, 2017) where she was appointed as a Creative Writing Teaching Fellow. Her first full-length collection, Fort Not, was published by The Song Cave in 2017 and was a finalist for the 2018 Believer Poetry Award. She is also the author of two chapbooks: Backchannel (Poor Claudia) and Linnaeus: The 26 Sexual Practices of Plants (No, Dear/ Small Anchor Press). Recent poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry, Harper’s, Boston Review, Brooklyn Rail, BOMB, jubilant, Hyperallergic, LitHub, Pleiades, and elsewhere. Her work has been included in both the Pushcart Prize Anthology (2017) and the Brooklyn Poets Anthology (2017). She has taught poetry and interdisciplinary studio courses at Poets House, Columbia University, The New School, and Brooklyn Poets.

Since 2009, Skillings has been an active member of Belladonna* Collaborative, a feminist literary collective, event series, and nonprofit publisher in Brooklyn that promotes the work of experimental women writers. She co-hosts the monthly Brooklyn-based reading series Earshot, which began in 2005 to promote the work of emerging writers alongside established voices. With poet Adam Fitzgerald, she co-curated the exhibit “John Ashbery Collects: Poet Among Things” at Loretta Howard Gallery (2013). Formally trained in ballet and modern dance, she has performed throughout New York City, and her choreography has been presented by NADA New York (2015), Spoke the Hub (2014), Dixon Place (2013), Triskelion Arts (2009), and Jacket 2, who commissioned her dance film “Uptick” in 2012.

Austin Carder

A graduate Coach with InGenius Prep, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has received his Bachelor in English from Yale University, where he also worked at the Yale University Art Gallery and helped edit a journal of literary translation. After graduation, He taught English to French students as a language assistant at a high school in the Paris suburbs while also privately tutoring students for U.S. university entrance exams. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Brown University, and his dissertation considers translation theory and the work of the Irish writer Samuel Beckett, who alternately wrote and translated his own work in (and into) both French and English.

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