Join us Friday, October 19th, at 7:00 PM at New Dominion Bookshop (404 E Main St.) for a reading by poets Lindsay Bernal and Caitlin Neely and memoirist Nicole Chung. There will be parking validation for the Water Street Parking Garage. This event will be free and open to the public. Refreshments will be provided.

Lindsay Bernal’s poetry collection, What It Doesn’t Have to Do With, published by the University of Georgia Press, was selected by Paul Guest as a winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series competition. Her poems have appeared in Blackbird, Conjunctions Online, Gulf Coast, OVERSOUND, Tikkun, and other journals. Bernal coordinates the Creative Writing Program and the Writers Here & Now reading series at the University of Maryland.

Nicole Chung was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest and currently lives in the DC area. Her essays and articles have appeared in The New York Times, GQ, Longreads, BuzzFeed, New York Magazine, and Hazlitt, among others. She is the web editor-in-chief of Catapult and the former managing editor of The Toast. All You Can Ever Know, her first book, is a profound, moving chronicle of surprising connections and the repercussions of unearthing painful family secrets―vital reading for anyone who has ever struggled to figure out where they belong.

Caitlin Neely earned her MFA from the University of Virginia. Her poetry has been published in West Branch, The Journal, Passages North, Sixth Finch, and others. She is the founder of The MFA Years and the editor for Reservoir.