Menagerie: A Reading with Lucía Retta, Catherine Kim, and Helen Armstrong

70 Brown St,Providence RI 02912

07 May, 2022

Description

Menagerie: a collection of wild or unusual animals on display Join Brown University Literary Arts MFA graduates Lucía Retta, Catherine Kim, and Helen Armstrong as they read selections from their thesis projects, all of which engage with animals in ways that are at times strange, filled with warmth, or even blasphemous. Light refreshments will be served. Lucía Retta is a mestiza writer and interdisciplinary artist with roots in Texas and Northern Mexico. Her work takes influence from ancestral storytelling, the land, non-linear time, and the ephemeral nature of light and bodies and water to investigate barriers, borders, emergence, and escape. She is currently completing her first novel. Catherine Kim is a Korean Canadian writer studying in the United States. Her work has appeared in Nat. Brut, Hypocrite Reader, Trinity Review, the Nameless Woman anthology, the Transcendent series, and elsewhere. Her fiction has been shortlisted for the Sunburst Award and her poetry nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She is currently finishing her MFA at Brown University. Helen Armstrong is a queer writer living in Providence, Rhode Island. She's been published in Black Warrior Review, Jellyfish Review, After the Pause, X-R-A-Y, and others. She is an MFA candidate at Brown University.