[Brooklyn]

Hatchet Job XXVIII - Farrokhzad, Nelson, Tan, Eilbert
December 7, 2015, 7:00 pm
at The Three Diamond Door

Hatchet Job breaks in the new backroom bar at Three Diamond Door with a poetry reading to end all poetry readings. Athena Farrokhzad was born in 1983 and lives in Stockholm. She is a poet, literary critic, translator, playwright and teacher of creative writing. She published her first volume of poetry, Vitsvit (White Blight) in 2013, at Albert Bonniers förlag. Argos Books will release the book in the United States, translated by Jennifer Hayashida. In 2015, Farrokhzad's second volume of poetry, Trado, written together with the Romanian poet Svetlana Carstean, will be published. Jennifer Nelson is a postdoctoral fellow at the Michigan Society of Fellows and assistant professor in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She formerly edited poetry at Epiphany and Washington Square Review. She holds degrees from Yale University, New York University, the Courtauld Institute, and Harvard College. Aim at the Centaur Stealing Your Wife is her first full-length book of poems. May-Lan Tan is the author of the story collection Things to Make and Break and a chapbook called Girly. Her stories have appeared in Zoetrope: All-Story, The Atlas Review, Arete, and The Reader. She works as an editor and children’s party entertainer, and she's writing another collection of stories. Natalie Eilbert lives and writes in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. She is the author of Swan Feast, as well as two chapbooks, Conversation with the Stone Wife from Bloof Books and And I Shall Again Be Virtuous from Big Lucks Books. She is the founding editor of The Atlas Review, an independent magazine of literature and visual art. Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous journals, including The New Yorker, The Kenyon Review, Tin House, Guernica, and elsewhere. More info here.