Join us for an evening celebrating new work from three incredible female writers: Binnie Kirshenbaum’s new novel, Counting Backwards, Carlie Hoffman’s new book of poetry, One More World Like This World, and Lauren Watel’s debut collection of poems, Book of Potions.
Binnie Kirshenbaum is the author of eight novels and one short story collection. Her books have been selected as Favorite Books of the Year by The New York Times, Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle, Newsweek Magazine, Vogue and National Public Radio. Her work has been translated into 11 languages. She is a professor of Fiction in the MFA Writing Program at Columbia University.
Carlie Hoffman is the author of three collections of poetry, One More World Like This World (Four Way Books / Forthcoming Spring 2025), When There Was Light (Four Way Books, Spring 2023), winner of the National Jewish Book Award, and This Alaska (Four Way Books, 2021), winner of the Northern California Publishers and Authors Gold Award in Poetry. She is the translator from German of Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger’s Blütenlese (World Poetry Books / 2026), the monograph artbook White Shadows: Anneliese Hager and the Camera-less Photograph (Atelier Éditions, Fall 2025) in collaboration with Harvard’s Busch-Reisinger Museum, and is completing the translations of the essential poems of Rose Ausländer (forthcoming). Hoffman is the founding editor and editorial director of Orange Editions/Small Orange Journal, where she curates and edits the interview series Small Orange Conversations with Poets.
Lauren K. Watel's debut collection BOOK of POTIONS won the Kathryn A Morton Prize in Poetry from Sarabande Books. Her potions, poetry, fiction, essays and translations have appeared widely. She earned an M.A. in English from Hollins College and a Ph.D. in Women's Studies from Emory University, mainly to avoid gainful employment. A native of Dallas, TX, she lives in Decatur, GA.
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