A Ribbon the Most Perfect Blue Book Launch ft. Christine Kwon & Tiana Noble

8123 Oak Street,New Orleans LA 70118

03 April, 2023

Description

Tiana Nobile 문영신 is a writer and educator with over ten years of experience teaching in a variety of settings. Recently named one of The Gambit’s “40 Under 40,” Tiana is the author of the full-length poetry collection, Cleave (Hub City Press, 2021), and the chapbook, The Spirit of the Staircase (Antenna, 2017), a collaboration with artist, Brigid Conroy. Her writing has appeared in The New Republic, Poets & Writers, The Writer’s Chronicle, and Lit Hub, among others. She is a Kundiman fellow, recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, two-time finalist of the National Poetry Series, and a founding member of The Starlings Collective. Tiana earned a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, MAT in Elementary and Special Education from the University of New Orleans, and MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College. She lives in New Orleans, Louisiana, with her family. Christine Kwon is a Korean American poet and fiction writer from New Jersey. Her debut poetry collection, A Ribbon the Most Perfect Blue (Southeast Missouri State University press, forthcoming March 2023), won the Cowles Poetry Book Prize. Her work has appeared or is imminent in The Recluse (The Poetry Project), Joyland Magazine, The Columbia Review, The Harvard Advocate, Copper Nickel, The Xavier Review, Hot Pink Mag and Annulet. She attended Yale and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She lives in New Orleans with her partner and three cats. Follow her on Instagram @theschooloflonging or christinekwonwrites.com.