Apr 08 2017
Fellowship Reading: A.H. Jerriod Avant and Tom Macher

Fellowship Reading: A.H. Jerriod Avant and Tom Macher

Presented by Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown at Stanley Kunitz Common Room

Please join us Saturday, April 8, 2017 at 6:30pm in the Stanley Kunitz Common Room at the Fine Arts Work Center for a reading by Poetry Fellow A. H. Jerriod Avant and Fiction Fellow Tom Macher.

Second-Year Poetry Fellow A. H. JERRIOD AVANT is from Longtown, MS. A graduate of Jackson State University, he has earned M.F.A. degrees from Spalding University and New York University, where he was a Writer in the Public Schools Fellow. A graduate of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop at Brown University, he has had poems appear in the Mississippi Review, Boston Review, Pinwheel, Louisville Review, The Rumpus, Callaloo, and other journals. He is the recipient of two Pushcart nominations, the Joseph F. McCrindle Online Editorial Fellowship from Poets & Writers, and a Vermont Studio Center residency.

Second-Year Fiction Fellow TOM MACHER grew up in New York, Georgia, California, and Louisiana. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he received a Teaching-Writing Fellowship, and his short stories have appeared in Mississippi Review, Slice Magazine, Hobart, Bull, and Day One. A memoir about his time living in a halfway house in Louisiana is forthcoming from Scribner.

Dates & Times

2017/04/08 - 2017/04/08

Location Info

Stanley Kunitz Common Room

24 Pearl Street, Provincetown, MA 02657