An Author Salon, with Deep Vellum

6409 Preston Road,Dallas TX 75205

24 February, 2022

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Join us for An Author Salon, featuring outstanding women leaders in Dallas's literary community. Deep Vellum and the Preston Hollow Women's Club invite you to An Author Salon, featuring three local women literary artists. Join nonprofit publishing house and literary arts center Deep Vellum for an afternoon of readings by poet Rachel Fox, poet Sherrie "Candy" Zantea, and translator Shelby Vincent. Stay afterward for a tea and refreshments and a chance to mingle with these outstanding leaders in Dallas's literary community. Salon- A gathering of people held by an inspiring host. Presenter BiosRachel Fox has been a poet for as long as she can remember. Born a Southern woman, she speaks with a soft voice guided by grace. Life has given her the kindness of a big, beautiful family, and the joy of true love. Dallas, TX has become the home of her heart's work, and her meditation studio. From this place of privilege, she gives what she has. Her prayers have become her practice, which has become her art. It is her hope that her meditations resonate as yours, too. She is the author of Meditations on Being, a poetry book published in 2020 by Deep Vellum. Sherrie "Candy" Zantea has been writing and performing poetry for over 25 years. Candy made the 2007 Dallas Poetry Slam Team. To date she has been on 13 poetry slam teams and was the first woman to coach eight. She is the current CEO of the Dallas Poetry Slam Organization. In addition, Candy is one of the Lead instructors for the Literary Arts in the DFW School Districts, and she is the current Program Director for The Writer’s Garret and one of the Learning Partners for the Dallas Independent School District. She is the author of Oak Cliff-Hangers, a poetry chapbook published in 2021 by Deep Vellum. Shelby Vincent is a translator, lecturer, and researcher at the Translator Center at UT Dallas. She received her PhD in Literary Translation from the University of Texas at Dallas's School of Arts and Humanities in 2015. She currently teaches courses in Spanish and creative writing. She is the translator of Heavens on Earth, by Mexican writer Carmen Boullosa, published in 2015 by Deep Vellum. Will Evans is the executive director and founder of Deep Vellum, a nonprofit publishing house and literary arts center based in Dallas and founded in 2013. He is the recipient of CLMP’s Golden Colophon Award for Paradigm Independent Publishing, Best Publisher In Dallas by D Magazine, and one of the 8 Young Dallas Entrepreneurs to Watch by Modern Luxury Magazine, and he was recognized as one of Emory University’s inaugural 40 Outstanding Alumni Under 40.