Georgia State University – A Student Showcase

Time: 1:30 – 2:30 PM

Location: The Emerging Student Writer’s Stage in The Reading Room, 429 Church St, Decatur, GA 30030

Join us for a reading by graduate students of different genres from Georgia State University’s writing program. The reading will be held on Saturday, October 5th at 1:30 PM on the Emerging Student Writer’s Stage in The Reading Room.

Emerging Student Writers

Alice Ashe is a second-year MFA student at Georgia State University. Her poetry has been published in december, Hawai’i Pacific Review, New Millenium Writings, and other journals. Alice also holds an MA in English with a concentration in literary studies from GSU and a BA in English and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies from Emory University. She lives in Atlanta with her partner and son.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Growing up in rural Kentucky and Alabama, Erin Carlyle’s poetry often deals with the intersections of place, poverty, and girlhood. Her work can be found in journals like Arts and Letters, Midway Journal, and Jet Fuel. Her Debut poetry collection, Magnolia Canopy Otherworld, was publish at end of 2020 on Driftwood press, and her second collection, Girl at the End of the World, comes out on 9/17 also on Driftwood Press. She teaches English Composition and Creative Writing at Georgia State University where she is also pursuing her PhD in Creative Writing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nellie Cox (she/her) is a poetry PhD student at Georgia State University and Managing Editor of Beyond Bars: A Journal of Literature and Art, a new journal dedicated to elevating the voices of the incarcerated. Nelle’s poetry explores the doomsday cult of her youth in Long Beach, California, and the mechanisms of high-control fundamentalism. When she isn’t reading or writing, Nellie can be found photographing turtles along the banks of the Chattahoochee River.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jada Ford is a poet and writer inspired by religion and Black girls in small towns. Her work can be found in Passages North, Mistake House, The Lumiere Review, her collaborate zine HOT PROPAGANDA, and other places. She is a PhD candidate at Georgia State University and has an MFA in Fiction Writing. For stories and poems, visit https://linktr.ee/jadawrites.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kiyanna Hill (she/her) is a Black writer. She is left-handed. Her work has been featured in Porter House Review, Honey Literary, The Maine Review, and Autofocus. Currently, she is a Ph.D. student at Georgia State University.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chris Ketchum is from Moscow, Idaho, and received an MFA from Vanderbilt University. He is a PhD candidate at Georgia State University, where he works as an editor of Beyond Bars, a literary magazine that publishes poetry and prose by writers impacted by the carceral system. His poems have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Copper Nickel, Missouri Review’s Poem of the Week, and elsewhere.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maria-Paula Ramirez Wong is a second year MFA fiction student at Georgia State University. She was born in Peru and immigrated to the United States with her parents at two years old. Her work explores immigration, inter-generational family trauma, folklore, and hauntings. Two of her most recent research projects are “The Legend of La Llorona: The Life and Function of a Myth in Mexican/Chicanx Identity” and “The Literature of Siu Kam Wen and Julia Wong Kcomt: Disrupting Universalism in Peru’s Popular Narratives.”