Lost City Books Winter Salon

Lost City Books + The Line DC welcome you to attend our Winter Salon, part of a quarterly reading series, hosted once per season, where we invite talented authors who are doing exciting work in all different genres to join us and read aloud a piece of their choosing. We'll eat, drink, talk, and listen, meet fellow lovers of literature, discover new authors, and mark the changing of the seasons together. Help us celebrate our city's vibrant literary community, hosted in the heart of Adams Morgan at The Line hotel. The authors: Zein El-Amine is a Lebanese-born poet and writer. He has an MFA in Poetry from theUniversity of Maryland. His poems have appeared in Wild River Review, Folio, Beltway Quarterly, Foreign Policy in Focus, CityLit, Graylit, Split This Rock, Penumbra, DC Poets Against the War: An Anthology, Ghostfishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology, and We Call to the Eye &amp; the Night: Love Poems by Writers of Arab Heritage. His latest poetry manuscript, “A Travel Guide for the Exiled,” was shortlisted for the Bergman Prize, judged by Louise Glück. El-Amine was awarded The Megaphone Prize by Radix Media for his collection of short stories titled Is This How You Eat A Watermelon. The book was nominated for the PEN/ Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection. El-Amine’s short stories have appeared in Lit Hub, Electric Literature, Uno Mas, Jadaliyya, Middle East Report, Wild River Review, About Place Journal, and Bound Off. El-Amine lives in Washington, DC. He is teaching global literature and Arab World Studies at American University. Temim Fruchter is a queer nonbinary anti-Zionist Jewish writer who lives in Brooklyn, NY. She holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Maryland, and is the recipient of fellowships from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Vermont Studio Center, and a 2020 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award. She is co-host of Pete’s Reading Series in Brooklyn. Her debut novel, City of Laughter, a New York Times Editors’ Pick, is out now on Grove Atlantic. India Lena González is a poet, editor, and multidisciplinary artist. She received her BA from Columbia University and her MFA from New York University. Her work is published in American Chordata, the Brooklyn Review, Harvard Review, Lampblack, Literary Hub, Milk Press, PANK, Pigeon Pages, and Poetry Northwest, among others, and it has been featured on the Slowdown podcast. fox woman get out! (BOA Editions, 2023), chosen by Aracelis Girmay as part of the Blessing the Boats Selections, is her debut poetry collection and was a finalist for Poetry Society of America’s 2024 Norma Farber First Book Award. A three-time National Poetry Series finalist, India is also a professionally trained dancer, choreographer, and actor and has had the pleasure of performing at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, St. Mark’s Church, La Mama, New York Live Arts, the Poetry Project, and other such venues. She has taught at Columbia University and NYU, as well as for the Poetry Society of New York, and has worked as a teaching artist for Teachers &amp; Writers Collaborative. She currently serves as the features editor for Poets &amp; Writers Magazine, where she has worked for the past five years. Kelly Sather is the author of Small in Real Life (Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 2023), her debut story collection and winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize. A former entertainment lawyer and screenwriter, she received an MFA from Bennington, and her work has appeared in Santa Monica Review, The Southampton Review, Literary Hub, PANK, and elsewhere. She writes about books and art-making, fame and desire for her Substack, <a href="https://kellysather.substack.com/">Small in Real Life</a>. She grew up in Los Angeles and lives in Washington, D.C

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