Join Us for a Virtual Issue Release Party!
At long last, the Borders Issue is live! Though it breaks our hearts not to be able to celebrate all Epiphany’s brilliant Spring/Summer 2020 contributors in person, we’re enormously pleased to announce to be collaborating with The Antibody: A Quarantine Reading Series on a virtual reading and issue release party.
Join us—and guest emcee Brian Gresko—on Friday, June 26 at 8PM EST, to raise a virtual glass to the eight magnificent readers who will be ushering in our new issue: Steve Chang, Roy G. Guzmán, Kimiko Hahn, Marcy Rae Henry, Vida James, Omar Sakr, Mary South, and Ghassan Zeineddine.
to join the audience and participate in a live Q&A after the reading, or
A video of the reading will also be published on LitHub’s virtual book channel after the fact.
About the Evening’s Readers
Steve Chang is from the San Gabriel Valley, California. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Guernica, North American Review, The Southampton Review, Okay Donkey, and elsewhere.
Roy G. Guzmán was born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and grew up in Miami, Florida. They are currently pursuing a PhD in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, where they also received an MFA in creative writing. Their work has appeared in Best New Poets 2017, and elsewhere.
Kimiko Hahn is the author of ten books of poetry. She is the winner of the Shelley Memorial Award, as well as fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Marcy Rae Henry is a Latina born and raised in Mexican-America/The Borderlands. She has lived in Spain, India and Nepal and once rode a motorcycle through the Middle East. Her writing has received a Chicago Community Arts Assistance Grant and an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship. Ms. M.R. Henry is a digital minimalist with no social media accounts. She is working on a collection of poems and two novellas.
Vida James is from Brooklyn, NY, where she was a social worker with immigrant and homeless youth. She is currently a Delaney Fellow at the University of Massachusetts Amherst MFA for Poets & Writers. A VONA/Voices alumna, she is currently working on a novel about the AIDS crisis in New York City.
Omar Sakr is an award-winning poet born and raised in Western Sydney to Lebanese Muslim and Turkish Muslim migrants. He is the author of These Wild Houses (Cordite Books, 2017) and The Lost Arabs (Andrews McMeel, 2020). In 2019, Omar was the recipient of the Edward Stanley Award for Poetry.
Mary South is the author of the short story collection You Will Never Be Forgotten with FSG Originals. She is a graduate of Northwestern University and the MFA program in fiction at Columbia University. For many years, she has worked as an editor at the literary journal NOON. Mary is also a former intern in The New Yorker's fiction department and a Bread Loaf work-study fellow. Her writing has appeared in The Believer, BOMB, The Collagist, Conjunctions, Electric Literature, NOON, and Words Without Borders, and on The New Yorker. The writer Maile Meloy awarded her story "Not Setsuko" an honorable mention in the Zoetrope: All Story fiction contest. She lives in New York City.
Ghassan Zeineddine lives with his wife in Dearborn, Michigan, where he teaches Arab American literature and creative writing at the University of Michigan–Dearborn. His fiction has appeared in The Georgia Review, Witness, Fiction International, Iron Horse Literary Review, and The Common, among other places. He is currently co-editing the creative nonfiction anthology Uncertain Refuge: Voices of Arab Detroit (Wayne State University Press, 2021).
