Gulf Coast Reading

Gulf Coast Reading Series  featuring Nick Almeida, Caleb Berg, and Aishwarya Sahi.

Nick Almeida is an Inprint C. Glenn Cambor Fellow and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Houston. He holds an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers, and his short fiction and essays have appeared in Kenyon Review, American Literary Review, The Southeast Review and elsewhere. His chapbook, Masterplans, was selected by Steve Almond as grand prize winner of the inaugural Masters Review Chapbook Open in fiction and is available now.

Caleb Berg is an Inprint James A. and Isabel M. Elkins Fellow and third year MFA candidate in fiction at the University of Houston, where he is blessed to teach his true passion, first year composition. You can find his writing if you look really hard for it, but he does not recommend it.

Aishwarya Sahi is a poet and translator from Patna, India. She is currently an Inprint Mary Gibbs and Jesse H. Jones fellow at the University of Houston’s Creative Writing Program, where she is pursuing an MFA in poetry. Her work has previously appeared in Blackbird, Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Recluse, among others.

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.