May Poetry & Pie: Kayla Min Andrews and Justin Lacour!

4714 Freret Street,New Orleans LA 70115

25 May, 2023

Description

Open mic to follow. Kayla Min Andrews is a biracial, Korean American writer living in New Orleans. She has been published in Cagibi for fiction, Halfway Down the Stairs for creative nonfiction, and Asymptote for literary translation. Her story "Red Like the Sun" was a finalist for the Tennessee Williams and New Orleans Literary Festival's Very Short Fiction Contest this year, and her flash essay "Old Kleenex" was nominated for a Best of the Net 2020. She is a reader for the Peauxdunque Review. Kayla is currently working with Putnam on the posthumous publication of her mother's novel The Fetishist (which is coming out in January 2024). She is excited to begin her MFA journey at Randolph this summer. Justin Lacour lives in New Orleans and edits Trampoline: A Journal of Poetry. He is the author of four chapbooks of poems, including Hulk Church forthcoming from Belle Point Press