Past Event
About
Gulf Coast Reading Series 22-24 Editorial Team farewell reading featuring Ryan Bollenbach, Rosa Boshier González, Leisa Loan, and guest reader Patrick Stockwell
Ryan Bollenbach is a writer and musician living in Houston, Texas. He is the managing editor of Gulf Coast. He is the author of the forthcoming chapbook letters from a strange land (Carrion Bloom Press). His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in DIAGRAM, Bennington Review, Quarterly West, Snail Trail Press, and elsewhere.
Rosa Boshier González is a writer and editor from Los Angeles. Her fiction, essays, and art criticism appear in Guernica, Catapult, Literary Hub, The New York Times, Artforum, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The Believer, and The Los Angeles Review of Books, among others. She serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Gulf Coast Journal.
Leisa Loan is a poet, editor, translator, and educator from Boston, MA. She is pursuing a PhD in Critical Poetics at the University of Houston where she is a C. Glenn Cambor Fellow. She currently serves as the Digital Editor for Gulf Coast.
Patrick Stockwell is an Inprint MD Anderson Foundation fellow and PhD candidate in fiction at the University of Houston. His work can be found in Gulf Coast, Glass Mountain, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from New Mexico State University and is the author of The Light Here Changes Everything, winner of the Clay Reynolds Novella Prize.
Series
Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts presents the poetry and prose of UH graduate students, paired with prominent featured visiting writers, at Lawndale Art Center. Participating students come from the MFA and PhD programs in Creative Writing. The monthly Gulf Coast Reading Series supports the journal’s mission to spotlight the work of both esteemed and emerging writers with voices as diverse as the Gulf itself.