Stephanie Ginese, reading + conversation with Ruth Awad

1124 Parsons Ave.,Columbus OH 43206

02 November, 2022

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Doors 7:30pm | Event 8pm Please join us in celebrating these two incredible Ohio-based poets to the Unicorn Stage!! Cleveland-based poet, Stephanie Ginese will be joining us to read from her debut book of poetry, Unto Dogs, along with our friend, Ruth Awad. After performances from both poets, join us for a conversation on their work, craft, and more. Stephanie Ginese is a writer & wannabe comedian from South Lorain, Ohio. She is the daughter of a Puerto Rican mother & an Italian immigrant father. She currently lives in Cleveland with her two children. Unto Dogs is her debut book of poetry. Ruth Awad is a Lebanese-American poet, a 2021 NEA Poetry fellow, and the author of Set to Music a Wildfire (Southern Indiana Review Press, 2017), winner of the 2016 Michael Waters Poetry Prize and the 2018 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry. Alongside Rachel Mennies, she is the co-editor of The Familiar Wild: On Dogs and Poetry (Sundress Publications, 2020). She is the recipient of a 2020 and 2016 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, and she won the 2013 and 2012 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize and the 2011 Copper Nickel Poetry Contest. Her work appears in Poetry, Poem-a-Day, The Believer, The New Republic, Pleiades, The Missouri Review, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She has an MFA in poetry from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and she lives and writes in Columbus, Ohio.