Letters Festival Closing-Night Reading at The Marianna at Wrecking Bar Pub

Join us for the Letters Festival closing-night reading with Jessamine Chan, Johannes Göransson, Paige Lewis, and Stine An!

Jessamine Chan is the author of The School for Good Mothers, which was a New York Times bestseller, a Read with Jenna/TODAY Show Book Club pick, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Carnegie Medal, and one of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2022. Translations in twenty languages have been published or are forthcoming. She lives in Atlanta with her family.

Johannes Göransson is a poet, translator and editor. He has written ten books of poetry, hybrid work and criticism, including most recently Summer and (with Swedish writer Sara Tuss Efrik) The New Quarantine. His latest book, The Adorations, is forthcoming from Black Ocean (Spring 27). As a translator, he has published books by such Swedish as Aase Berg, Ann Jäderlund and Eva Kristina Olsson, as well as a book by the Korean poet Kim Yideum. He is editor of Action Books and Notre Dame Review.

Paige Lewis is the author of the poetry collection Space Struck and the novel Canon. They coedited Another Last Call: Poems on Addiction and Deliverance along with Kaveh Akbar. Lewis teaches at the University of Iowa.

Stine An is a Korean/American poet, translator, and performer born in Cheonan, South Korea and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. She holds a BA in Literature from Harvard and an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown, and has received fellowships and grants from The Poetry Project, the PEN/Heim Translation Fund, Yaddo, ALTA, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her publications include the translations Today's Morning Vocabulary (2025) and Winter Night Rabbit Worries (2026) by Yoo Heekyung and the chapbook S_MMER CR_SH (2025). Her debut poetry collection, B-Dragon Suite, won the 2023 Nightboat Poetry Prize and is available at your favorite bookshop.