Join us September 23!

Join us September 23!

Virginia Quarterly Review partners with us this month for readings by Garnette Cadogan, Kelli Jo Ford, and Scott Weaver! Friday, September 23. 7:00pm at the Bridge PAI (209 Monticello Road). Refreshments available at intermission.

Garnette Cadogan is Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, and Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. He is editor-at-large for Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas (edited by Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro), and is at work on a book on walking.

Kelli Jo Ford’s fiction has appeared in publications such as VQR, Forty Stories: New Writing from Harper Perennial, and New Delta Review. She’s been awarded a National Artist Fellowship by the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation, an Elizabeth George Foundation grant, and a Dobie Paisano Fellowship. She’s a member of the Cherokee Nation and lives with her husband, Scott Weaver, and their daughter, Cypress, in Richmond, where she’s working on a book of stories titled Crooked Hallelujah.

Scott Weaver’s collection of poems, Home & Ghost, was released in 2016 from Urban Farmhouse Press. His poems have appeared in Rattle, The New York Quarterly, DIAGRAM, UCity Review, and other journals. Home & Ghost is his debut poetry collection. Scott earned his MFA in Creative Writing from George Mason University, where he was a Heritage Fellow, and worked as a staff writer for C-VILLE Weekly. He lives with his wife, Kelli Jo Ford, and their daughter Cypress in Richmond, Virginia, and teaches English at Reynolds Community College.