Spring 2011 NANO Reading Series

Kaboom Books and the Editors of NANO Fiction are delighted to bring back a fouth season of the NANO Reading series. This season’s lineup features eight readers from the Houston and Austin areas.

The NANO Reading Series is held at Kaboom Books at the intersection of Houston Ave. and Bayland on the second Tuesday of every month at 7:30pm. As always, there will be commemorative chapbooks to celebrate the reading and refreshments will be served.

Spring 2011 DATES & READERS

February 8, 7:30pm
Brian Nicolet & Addie Tsai

Brian Nicolet holds an MFA from the University of Houston and has received scholarships to Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and Sewanee Writers’ Conference. His poems and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Subtropics, Gulf Coast, La Fovea, New South, and Colorado Review. Having spent a year teaching English in Seoul, South Korea, he now ekes out his existence in Austin.

Addie Tsai holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College. Her work has appeared in Born Magazine, American Letters & Commentary, NOON: A Journal of the Short Poem, and Forklift, Ohio, among others. She also received third place in Tin House Magazine’s 2006 SLS – Kenya Contest. Addie lives in Houston, Texas.

March 8, 7:30pm
Eric Ekstrand, Ryan Call & Miah Arnold

Eric Ekstrand was awarded his MFA from University of Houston in May of 2010 where he held an Inprint/Brown Fellowship. He teaches writing and literature at UH and with Writers in the Schools, Houston. He is a former poetry editor at Gulf Coast. His poems have appeared in Bat City, Black Warrior Review, Indiana Review, jubilat, New South, and Poetry. He is a recipient of a 2009 Ruth Lilly Fellowship awarded by the Poetry Foundation.

Ryan Call is the author of The Weather Stations (Caketrain 2011). His stories have appeared in Conjunctions, The Lifted Brow, New York Tyrant, Mid-American Review, The Collagist, and elsewhere. He and his wife live in Houston.

Miah Arnold is a fiction writer who was raised in a house attached to her father’s saloon in rural UtahShe received a Ph. D. in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston. She won a Barthelme Award for nonfiction in 2006, the Inprint/Diana P. Hobby Award for her fiction in 2008, and this year she was chosen as a Houston Arts Alliance Established Artist Grant recipient. Her writing has appeared a number of journals including Michigan Quarterly Review, Confrontation, Painted Bride Quarterly, the South Dakota Review, and Cite. Miah teaches for the University of Houston, UHD, Inprint, and Writers in the Schools, and has served as fiction editor of Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts and as a poetry editor at Lyric Poetry Review. She is currently at work her novel, Sweet Land of Bigamy, and two books of essays.

April 12, 7:30pm
Frank Giampietro & Laurie Cedilnik

Frank Giampietro’s book Begin Anywhere was published by Alice James Books in 2008. He is creator of the web poetry projects La Fovea and Poems by Heart. His work has appeared in 32 Poems, Black Warrior Review, FENCE, Ploughshares, and Poetry Daily. He is the 2010-2012 resident scholar at The Southern Review.

A native of Queens, NY, Laurie Ann Cedilnik holds degrees from Wellesley College and the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in the Colorado Review, Cimarron Review, and elsewhere, and has received Honorable Mention in the 2010 Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition. Her book reviews can be found in Bust magazine. She currently works at the Honors College at the University of Houston.

May 10, 7:30pm
Lauren Berry & TBA

Lauren Berry received a BA from Florida State University and an MFA from the University of Houston, where she won the Inprint Verlaine Poetry Prize and was poetry editor for Gulf Coast magazine. In 2009-2010 she held the Diane Middlebrook Poetry Fellowship at the Wisconsin Institute. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from magazines such as Hayden’s Ferry Review, Denver Quarterly, and Cream City Review. In 2010, her first collection of poems was selected by Terrance Hayes as the winner of the National Poetry Series and will be published by Penguin in May of this year.