Bottlerocket x White Whale Books: IT CAME FROM THE CLOSET

1226 Arlington Avenue,Pittsburgh PA 15210

17 October, 2022

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Featuring readings and conversations with authors, all are welcome to check out the Bottlerocket Book Club series, in partnership with our favorite local indie bookstore, White Whale! White Whale will have both books available for sale during the event, and the bar will be open! This event is all ages! Sarah Tomasin Fonseca is a writer, editor, and film programmer based in New York City who has dispatched from Cannes, New York Film Festival, and Sundance. With one eye on queer cinema history and the other on its future potential, she has contributed a volume of interviews, reviews, and critical essays to LGBT and mainstream film publications, including Condé Nast’s them., The Advocate, Film Comment, and Museum of the Moving Image’s Reverse Shot. She is a co-editor of The New Lesbian Pulp, forthcoming from Feminist Press in 2024. She tweets @girlsinmitsouko. Zefyr Lisowski is a trans woman poet and essayist based in New York City. She’s a poetry co-editor at Apogee Journal and the author of the Lizzie Borden queer murder chapbook Blood Box (Black Lawrence Press 2019). Zefyr has received support from Blue Mountain Center, Tin House Summer Writers Workshop, and elsewhere; her poems and essays have appeared in Catapult, The Offing, The Rumpus, and many other places. She lives at zeflisowski.com. Steffan Triplett is a poet and essayist from Joplin, Missouri. His essays have appeared in Electric Literature, Longreads, Lit Hub, Vulture, and The Iowa Review. Steffan currently teaches at the University of Pittsburgh where he is the Assistant Director for the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics. His first book, Bad Forecast, is forthcoming on Essay Press in 2024. Grant Sutton writes and practices acupuncture in New Orleans, Louisiana.