Wednesday, 12/15: Claire Hero, Becca Klaver & Julia Story

Claire Hero, Becca Klaver, and Julia Story will read at Outpost 186 on Wednesday, 12/15. 8 pm, small donation suggested.

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Claire Hero is the author of Sing, Mongrel (Noemi Press 2009) and two chapbooks: Cabinet (dancing girl press) and afterpastures, winner of the 2007 Caketrain Chapbook Competition. Her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Handsome, Poemeleon and Sous Rature. She lives in upstate New York and teaches writing at SUNY – New Paltz.

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Bex on her birthday with her very own small animal, Contessa. Photo: Becca Fischer.

Becca Klaver is the author of the poetry collection LA Liminal (Kore Press, 2010) and the chapbook Inside a Red Corvette: A 90s Mix Tape (greying ghost, 2009). A founding editor of the feminist poetry press Switchback Books, she is also editing, with Arielle Greenberg, an anthology of poems for teenage girls. Becca holds degrees from the University of Southern California and Columbia College Chicago, and is currently a PhD student in English at Rutgers University. Born and raised in Milwaukee, WI, she now lives in Brooklyn, NY, and blogs at the pomo expo. You can read recent poems online at Super Arrow, InDigest, and Sharkforum.

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A native of Indiana, Julia Story is the author of Post Moxie (Sarabande Books), which won the 2009 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in poetry and the Ploughshares Zacharis Prize for a first book of poetry. Her recent work has appeared in The Paris Review, The Indiana Review, and Octopus Magazine. She is currently working on her next collection and lives with a carpenter and a dachshund in Somerville, Massachusetts.

You can find some her recent work here and here. She blogs here.