Gulf Coast Reading Series: September 2015

Gulf Coast is proud to present its 2015-2016 Reading Series, featuring writers from the University of Houston’s nationally-acclaimed graduate program in creative writing.

This is not your parents’ poetry reading! The Gulf Coast Reading Series will dazzle and enchant—or, at the very least, leave you warmly welcomed and entertained by emerging and established poets and writers.

There are no cookie-cutter voices or styles here; we love Houston so much we assemble a new roster of fresh literary talent month after month!

The readings are free and open to the public.

SEPTEMBER 2015:

Kathleen Winter is the author of Nostalgia for the Criminal Past (Elixir Press), winner of the Antivenom Prize and the 2013 Bob Bush Memorial Award for a first book of poems.  She is the Fall 2015 Dobie Paisano Fellow, selected by the University of Texas and Texas Institute of Letters. She has been awarded fellowships at the Dora Maar House, Ménerbes, France; James Merrill House; Cill Rialaig Retreat; Prague Summer Program, and Vermont Studio Center. Her poems have appeared in Tin House, AGNI Online, The New Republic, Memorious, Field, Gulf Coast and Poetry London. Winter grew up in San Antonio and teaches at Napa Valley College.

Jonathan Meyer was born in—and writes about—Texas. He is a second-year MFA student at UH and an assistant editor for Gulf Coast. His fiction and essays have appeared in Microchondria, Gauge, and The Emerson Review. He is at work on a novel about his two favorite subjects: rock n’ roll and the Texas oil industry.

Will Burns graduated high school in Arkansas (in a little town called Methlehem) and went straight to the PhD program at the University of Houston to study fiction writing. He can wink with both eyes at once. He is great with scorpions of all kinds. On this night, He will read much fiction.

Yerra Sugarman is the author of two poetry collections: Forms of Gone and The Bag of Broken Glass, both published by The Sheep Meadow Press. She received a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and awards from PEN American Center, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Poetry Society of America, and The Nation magazine. She is a PhD candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Houston.

Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts is a premiere, student-run journal of literature, art, and critical art writing housed in the English Department at the University of Houston, home to one of the nation’s top-ranked creative writing programs.