LMNL Presents and Evening with Laura McKnight, Ariel Francisco, Dev Jannerson, and Jon Hebert
November 12 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Fall is in full swing, and so is our programming! 
Join us for our next reading on November 12 at Parleaux for good drinks, words, and community 
Without further ado, check out these brilliant writers that will be joining us:
Laura McKnight is a writer from Thibodaux now based in New Orleans. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of New Orleans and spent over 20 years as a journalist, a career that continues to shape her storytelling and perspective of the world. Her writing has appeared in multiple local and regional magazines and newspapers, as well as the literary journal Reckoning.
Ariel Francisco is a Dominican-Guatemalan poet and translator and the author of We All Have Moons We Long to Return to (Texas Review Press 2028), All the Places We Love Have Been Left in Ruins (Burrow Press 2024), Under Capitalism if Your Head Aches They Just Yank Off Your Head (Flowersong Press 2022), A Sinking Ship is Still a Ship (Burrow Press 2020), All My Heroes are Broke (C&R Press 2017), and eight books of translations. His work has been published in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Academy of American Poets, and POETRY Magazine.
Dev Jannerson (he/they) is an award-winning author of books and short stories for teens and adults. Jannerson is a 2025 Lambda Fellow, a two-time Tin House graduate, a Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, and the author of two collections of poetry, Rabbit Rabbit and Thanks for Nothing (Finishing Line Press), and one novel, The Women of Dauphine (NineStar Press). He is represented by Lee O’Brien of Looking Glass Literary & Media, and their current project is a YA suspense novel infused with disability politics.
Jon Hebert is an author and musician based in New Orleans. UL Press published his comedy memoir Hear This! A Twisted Tale of Sonic Torment in 2026. His spy thriller The Gemstone Peridot and the dark comic noir You’ve Got To Be Killing Me! are both in the New Orleans Public Library system. He has been featured in the New Orleans Library’s Renewed anthology, the LMNL Anthology, and Hearing Health Magazine.
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