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The Café & Bar Presents Royalties: An Exhibit B Reading Series

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Saturday, 5:00 pm EDT February 25, 2023

The Center for Fiction Café & Bar

RSVPs are optional. Guests will be admitted on a first come, first seated basis.

Royalties: An Exhibit B Reading Series highlights outstanding authors with a focus on queer and trans writers and writers of color. We aim to bring established and emerging writers into the same events, conversations, and readership. Join hosts and Emerging Writer Fellowship alumni Grace Shuyi Liew and Claire Oleson for an evening of readings featuring Sam Bodrojan, Hafizah Augustus GeterJasmine Reid, and Delia Cai at The Center for Fiction Café & Bar on Feburary 25th at 5pm ET.

In collaboration with Exhibit B and Unbound Edition Press.

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Featuring

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    Grace Shuyi Liew

    Grace Shuyi Liew

    Born and raised in Malaysia, Grace Shuyi Liew is a lesbian poet and fiction writer currently living in Brooklyn, New York. She has been awarded The Center for Fiction Emerging Writer Fellowship, a MacDowell Fellowship, Tin House Writer-in-Residence, Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize (judged by Min Jin Lee), Squaw Valley Community of Writers Scholarship, and more. She is the author of the poetry collection Careen (Noemi Press, 2019), which has been named Electric Literature’s “14 Unmissable Poetry Books of 2019.”

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    Claire Oleson

    Claire Oleson

    Claire Oleson is a queer writer and 2020 Emerging Writer Fellow at The Center for Fiction. She is a 2019 graduate of Kenyon College where she studied English and Creative Writing. Her work has been published by the Kenyon Review online, the LA Review of Books, Guesthouse, and Foglifter. Her chapbook of short stories, Things from the Creek Bed We Could Have Been debuted in May 2020 from Newfound Press. She is represented by Eloy Bleifuss at Janklow & Nesbit.

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    Sam Bodrojan

    Sam Bodrojan

    Sam Bodrojan is a transsexual living in Chicago. She writes criticism and also fiction. She is a graduate of the Kenyon Young Writers Program. She is just excited to be here.

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    Hafizah Augustus Geter

    Hafizah Augustus Geter

    Hafizah Augustus Geter is a Nigerian U.S. writer born in Zaria, Nigeria, and raised in Akron, Ohio, and Columbia, South Carolina. Her debut memoir, The Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and Origin, (Random House, 2022) is a New Yorker Magazine Best Book of 2022, a Good Morning America Anticipated Book, and an Amazon’s Best of the Month Editor’s Pick. She is the author of the poetry collection Un-American (Wesleyan University Press, 2020), an NAACP Image Award and PEN Open Book Award finalist. Her writing has appeared in the New Yorker, Bomb magazine, Boston Review, the Believer, the Paris Review, Salon, the Funambulist, among many others. She is a literary agent at Janklow & Nesbit and lives in Brooklyn, NY.

    Photo Credit: Beowulf Sheehan

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    Jasmine Reid

    Jasmine Reid

    Jasmine Reid is a twice trans poet of flowers. She is the author of Deus Ex Nigrum, an MFA graduate from Cornell University, and recipient of fellowships from Poets House and Jack Jones Literary Arts. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, Indiana Review, and TriQuarterly, among others. Jasmine was born and raised in Baltimore, MD, and is currently based in Brooklyn, NY, where she is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute.

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    Delia Cai

    Delia Cai

    Delia Cai was born in Madison, Wisconsin, and grew up in central Illinois. She is a graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism, and her writing has appeared in BuzzFeed, GQ, the Cut, and Catapult. Her media newsletter, Deez Links, has been highlighted in the New York Times, New York magazine, and Fortune. She is currently a senior correspondent at Vanity Fair and lives in Brooklyn. Central Places is her first novel.

    Photo Credit: June Kim

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