lmnl reading featuring Jessica Brasseur, Adam Karlin, and C.T. Salazar!

2240 Saint Claude Avenue,New Orleans LA 70117

22 January, 2023

Description

Local UNO student Jessica Brasseur will be joined by local author Adam Karlin and visiting author C.T. Salazar. It'll be a night you won't want to miss! This event is supported in part by Poets & Writers. Originally from St. Petersburg, Florida, Jessica Brasseur is a writer and artist living in New Orleans. She is a graduate student at the University of New Orleans’ CWW, where she studies and writes nonfiction. When she is not coddling her 12-year-old cat, Lewis, she can be found in City Park wondering about the algae in the various small bodies of water. Adam has written on travel, crime, COVID, and civil wars – both contemporary and historical – for outlets like the BBC, NPR, Huck Magazine, Catapult, Strangers Guide, and The Bitter Southerner. He is also a regular author for Lonely Planet, where he has contributed to dozens of guidebooks covering Asia, Africa, and North America. He has been a resident at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and a fellow at the Bread Loaf Conference in Middlebury, VT, where he proudly began an official scary story night. Adam has an MFA in Fiction Writing from the University of New Orleans and lives in that city, where he teaches at the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts and lives with his wife and two children. He is currently working on a memoir on travel, family, and the search for home. C.T. Salazar is a Latinx poet and librarian from Mississippi. His debut collection, Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking (Acre Books 2022) was named a 2023 finalist for the Theodore Roethke. Memorial Award. His poems have most recently appeared in West Branch, Gulf Coast, Denver Quarterly Review, Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere.