Past Event
About
Gulf Coast Reading Series featuring Karisma Price, KT Herr, Katerina Ivanov Prado, and Jacob Weil.
Karisma Price is an assistant professor of English at Tulane University. A poet and screenwriter, she is the author of I’m Always So Serious (Sarabande Books, 2023) which was a New York Times Editors’ Choice Pick. Her work has appeared in publications including Poetry, Indiana Review, Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day Series, and elsewhere. She is a Cave Canem Fellow, was awarded the 2020 J. Howard and Barbara M. J. Wood Prize from the Poetry Foundation, and is the 2023 winner of the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from the American Poetry Review. She holds an MFA in poetry from New York University.
KT Herr (they/she) is a queer writer, stepparent, and curious person with work appearing or forthcoming in Foglifter, The Massachusetts Review, Black Warrior Review, and as winner of the 2023 American Literary Review Award in Poetry, among others. KT is a Four Way Books board member and an Inprint C. Glenn Cambor Fellow in Critical Poetics at the University of Houston.
Katerina Ivanov Prado’s multi-genre writing has been published in Narrative, Brevity, Catapult, The Rumpus, Joyland, Passages North and others. She won the Narrative Story Prize, John Weston Award for Fiction, and the AWP Intro Award, and has received fellowship support from VCCA, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and LitUp. She obtained her MFA at University of Arizona and is a Ph.D. student in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Houston, where she works as an editorial fellow at Arte Publico Press.
Jacob Weil is a 25 year old poet getting his MFA at the University of Houston. Right now he’s working on a book of poems focused on contemporary music. He wants very much to show them to you.
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.