LMNL reading series featuring Maegan Gonzales, Elise Glassman, Kristina Kay Robinson, and Allison Alsup!

Join us August 18 for some air conditioning and creativity! We have four locals joining us this month. Check out these bios:

Maegan Gonzales is a southern visual artist, poet, educator. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Salt Hill Journal, Northwest Review, Midway Journal, Potomac Review, New Orleans Review, and more. She lives in Lake Charles, Louisiana where she teaches Composition and Literature at McNeese State University.

Elise Glassman lives and writes in New Orleans. Her stories and creative nonfiction have appeared in The Colorado Review, Main Street Rag, The Portland Review, Per Contra, Spank the Carp, San Antonio Review and upcoming work will appear in Fiction on the Web this summer. She is an assistant fiction editor at Pithead Chapel and is currently at work on a memoir.

Kristina Kay Robinson is a poet, writer, and visual artist born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her written, visual and curatorial practice centers and interrogates the modern and ancient connections between world communities. Robinson’s ongoing installation and performance art project, Republica: Temple of Color and Sound has been presented in exhibition at “Welcome to the Afrofuture” during Miami Art Week, New Museum’s residency program, Ideas City, New Orleans African American Museum, in collaboration with MoMa’s Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America and currently, featured in Notes For Tomorrow with Independent Curators International. She is the co-editor of Mixed Company, a collection of short fiction and visual narratives by women of color. In addition to the anthology, the collective of writers hosted free cultural programming in the city of New Orleans. She is a 2018 recipient of Tulane University’s Center for the Gulf South’s Monroe Fellowship, as well as a 2021 resident at A Studio in the Woods, a program of Tulane University’s ByWater Institute. Her writing in various genres has appeared in Art in America, Guernica, The Baffler, The Nation, The Massachusetts Review and Elle among other outlets. Robinson is a 2019 recipient of the Rabkin Prize for Visual Arts Journalism. Currently she serves as the New Orleans editor at large for the Atlanta based, Burnaway magazine.

Allison Alsup is co-founder and Creative Director of the New Orleans Writers Workshop, a locally run non-profit that offers affordable creative writing classes and manuscript coaching. In addition to teaching workshops, Allison works one on one with writers as a developmental editor. Her work has appeared, among other places, in the 2014 O.Henry Prize Stories and Best Food Writing 2015. Her debut novel, Foreign Seed, was released by Keylight Press in June. She will be appearing at the Mississippi and Louisiana Book Festivals.