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Charlottesville Reading Series announces poets, authors for May event

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newspaperThe Charlottesville Reading Series will host a poetry and prose reading on Friday, May 13 from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM at The Bridge PAI (209 Monticello Road).

The event will feature in-person readings by Emma Eisenberg, Sophia Wiedeman, and Ryan Wilson and is free to attend. Complimentary refreshments will be available at intermission.

Emma Copley Eisenberg is a writer of fiction and nonfiction. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Salon, Slate, Hyperallergic, The New Republic, Gulf Coast, Five Chapters, Autostraddle, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and other publications, and she has received honors or residencies from Narrative, Buzzfeed, Lambda Literary, and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. She is a regular contributor to the Philadelphia Citizen. She lives in West Philadelphia with her large-headed cat Gabriel where she is at work on a novel and a work of narrative nonfiction.

Sophia Wiedeman is a comic book artist and educator living in Charlottesville. She received her BA in English and Art from the College of William & Mary and her MFA in Illustration as Visual Essay from the School of Visual Arts. Her work has been published in Time Out New York, The L Magazine, TopShelf 2.0, gURL.com, and the Daily Crosshatch. Her comics have also been featured in various anthologies including, Suspect Device 4, Quarter Moon, DIGESTATE, Rabid Rabbit, and Kilgore Quarterly. Her collection of comics, Born, Not Raised, was recently selected to be included in the Society of Illustrators Cartoon and Comics Art Annual 2016. In 2008, Sophia was a recipient of a Xeric Foundation Grant for her graphic novela, The Deformitory. She is also the author of The Lettuce Girl and SemiSolid.

Ryan Wilson was born in Griffin, Georgia. He holds graduate degrees from Johns Hopkins University and Boston University. His poetry has appeared in numerous journals, such as 32 Poems, Able Muse, First Things, The Hopkins Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, Measure, River Styx, Sewanee Review, Sewanee Theological Review, and Unsplendid. Currently, he is a doctoral candidate at the Catholic University of America, and lives in Baltimore with his wife.

About the Charlottesville Reading Series

Founded by Julia Kudravetz and Amie Whittemore in 2014, the Charlottesville Reading Series presents in-person readings of poetry and prose in a monthly event for community members in Charlottesville. We recruit emerging and established writers form diverse backgrounds, both locally and nationally.

For more information about the series, visit www.readingseries.org.

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