dec. 07

Lostintheletters closes out 2024 with live readings from:

Nina MacLaughlin is the author of Wake, Siren, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the Massachusetts Book Award, as well as Summer Solstice and Winter Solstice (Black Sparrow), winner of the Massachusetts Book Award. Her first book was the acclaimed memoir Hammer Head (W.W. Norton), a finalist for the New England Book Award. Formerly an editor at the Boston Phoenix, she worked for nine years as a carpenter, and is now a books columnist for the Boston Globe. Her work has appeared on or in The Paris Review Daily, The Virginia Quarterly Review, n+1, The Believer, The New York Times Book Review, Agni, American Short Fiction, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Meatpaper, and elsewhere. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Sasha Debevec-McKenney is the author of the poetry collection JOY IS MY MIDDLE NAME, which will be published by Fitzcarraldo Editions and W.W. Norton in 2025. She received her MFA from New York University and was the 2020-2021 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin. Her poems have appeared in places like The New Yorker, The Yale Review, and The New York Review of Books. She was born in Hartford, Connecticut and currently lives in Decatur, Georgia, where she is a Creative Writing fellow at Emory University.

Emilio Carrero is the editor of Southeast Review. Their work appears in SleepingFish, Ocean State Review, and Black Warrior Review. Their debut essay collection Autobiography of the [Undead] is forthcoming from Calamari Archive. They believe the truth is out there.