Lucia LoTempio
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Debut Revue Reading with Jessica Q. Stark, Leila Chatti, George Abraham

Jessica Q. Stark is a Vietnamese American poet and scholar that lives in Durham, North Carolina. She holds a PhD in English from Duke University and her poetry has most recently appeared or is forthcoming in PleiadesTupelo Quarterly,  and the Glass Poetry Journal. She writes poetry reviews for Carolina Quarterly and is an Assistant Poetry Editor for AGNI. She is the author of three chapbooks and Her first full-length poetry collection, Savage Pageant, was published by Birds, LLC in March 2020. Order Jessica’s debut poetry collection.

Lucia LoTempio is the author of Hot with the Bad Things, which was published by Alice James Books in May 2020. You can find Lucia’s poems in Passages NorthThe JournalQuarterly West, in Poem-a-Day, and elsewhere. She is also the coauthor, with Suzannah Russ Spaar, of the 2019 chapbook Undone in Scarlet. Lucia lives and writes in Pittsburgh. Order Lucia’s debut poetry collection.

George Abraham is a Palestinian American poet from Jacksonville, Florida. They are a Kundiman fellow, a board member for the Radius of Arab American Writers, and a recipient of the College Union Poetry Slam’s Best Poet title. They are the author of the debut poetry collection Birthright, which was released by Button Poetry in April 2020. Their work has appeared in the American Poetry Reviewthe Paris ReviewLitHub  and elsewhere. They are currently based in Somerville, MA where they are a PhD Candidate in Bioengineering at Harvard University. Order George’s debut poetry collection.

Leila Chatti is a Tunisian-American poet and author of Deluge, which was published by Copper Canyon Press in April 2020. She is also the author of the chapbooks Ebb, from Akashic Books, and Tunsiya/Amrikiya, the 2017 Editors’ Selection from Bull City Press. She has received grants and fellowships from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, among others. Her poems appear in The New York Times Magazine, Ploughshares, Tin House, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere, and she is currently pursuing a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Cincinnati. Order Leila’s debut poetry collection.

Order all four of these poets’ debut collections.