Join us at the Bridge PAI (209 Monticello Road) for readings by Emma Eisenberg, Sophia Wiedeman, and Ryan Wilson on Friday, May 13 at 7:00pm. Refreshments will be available at intermission.

Emma Copley Eisenberg is a writer of fiction and nonfiction. Her work has appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, Salon, Slate, Hyperallergic, The New Republic, Gulf Coast, Five Chapters, Autostraddle, The Philadelphia Inquirerand others and has received honors or residencies from Narrative, Buzzfeed, Lambda Literary, and The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. She is a regular contributor to The Philadelphia Citizen. She lives in West Philadelphia with her large-headed cat Gabriel where she is at work on a novel and a work of narrative nonfiction.

Sophia Wiedeman is a comic book artist and educator living in Charlottesville, VA. She received her BA in English and Art from the College of William & Mary and her MFA in Illustration as Visual Essay from the School of Visual Arts. Her work has been published in Time Out New York, The L Magazine, TopShelf 2.0, gURL.com and The Daily Crosshatch. Her comics have also been featured in various anthologies including, Suspect Device 4, Quarter Moon, DIGESTATE, Rabid Rabbit, and Kilgore Quarterly. Her collection of comicsBorn, Not Raised was recently selected to be included in The Society of Illustrators Cartoon and Comics Art Annual 2016.In 2008 Sophia was a recipient of a Xeric Foundation Grant for her graphic novela, The Deformitory. She has also the author of The Lettuce Girl and SemiSolid.

Ryan Wilson was born in Griffin, Georgia. He holds graduate degrees from The Johns Hopkins University and Boston University. His work has appeared in numerous journals, such as 32 Poems, Able Muse, First Things, The Hopkins Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, Measure, River Styx, The Sewanee Review, Sewanee Theological Review, and Unsplendid. Currently he is a doctoral candidate at The Catholic University of America, and he lives in Baltimore with his wife.