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The Sundress Academy for the Arts (SAFTA) is pleased to announce the guests for the July installment of our virtual reading series. This event will take place on Wednesday, July 28, 2021, on Zoom (http://tiny.utk.edu/sundress, password: safta) from 7-8 PM EST.

Aaron Caycedo-Kimura is the author of the chapbook Ubasute ( Slapering Hol Press, 2021) and of the forthcoming full-length collection Common Grace (Beacon Press, 2022). He is a recipient of a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship in Poetry and a St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award in Literature. His poetry has appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Poet Lore, DMQ Review, Tule Review, Louisiana Literature, The Night Heron Barks, and elsewhere. Aaron earned his MFA in creative writing from Boston University and is also the author and illustrator of Text, Don’t Call: An Illustrated Guide to the Introverted Life (TarcherPerigee, 2017).

Alexa Doran’s full-length collection DM Me, Mother Darling won the 2020 May Sarton Poetry Prize and was published by Bauhan Publishing in April 2021. She is also the author of the chapbook Nightsink, Faucet Me a Lullaby (Bottlecap Press 2019). You can look for work from Doran in recent or upcoming issues of Passages North, Literary Mama, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Anti-Heroin Chic, and Salt Hill Journal, among others. For a full list of her publications, awards, and interviews please visit her website at alexadoran.com.

Julie Danho is the author of Those Who Keep Arriving, which won the 2018 Gerald Cable Book Award (Silverfish Review Press, 2020). Her poems have appeared in journals such as New Ohio Review, Pleiades, and Bennington Review and have also been featured on The Writer's Almanac, Poetry Daily, and Verse Daily. Her chapbook, Six Portraits, won the 2013 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Competition, and she has received a MacColl Johnson Fellowship as well as fellowships from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. You can find more of her work at juliedanho.com.

The Sundress Academy for the Arts (SAFTA) is a writers residency and arts collective that hosts workshops, retreats, and residencies for writers in all genres including poetry, fiction, nonfiction, journalism, academic writing, playwriting, and more.

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