Aida Zilelian's guest appearances

Aida Zilelian

Show Do Tell: A Reading Series & Art Review

Conor Oberst

Amanda Miller

Brittany Anjou

Nick Gross

Daniel Braum

Aaron Poochigian

David Puretz

Shea Lowery

Brendan Lorber

Dana Roeser

Jessica Stilling

Donald Kennedy

Prince A. McNally

Matthew Thorburn

Christine Kandic Torres

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The September edition of the Show Do Tell Reading Series:Aida Zilelian is a New York writer and English teacher.  Her debut novel The Legacy of Lost Things was released in March 2015 (Bleeding Heart Publications) and was the recipient of the 2014 Tololyan Literary Award. She has been featured on NPR, the New York Times, the Huffington Post, Kirkus Reviews, among other radio and print platforms. Most recently, her short story collection These Hills Were Meant for You was shortlisted for the 2018 Katherine Anne Porter Award. She is currently completing her third novel. Matthew Thorburn is the author of seven collections of poems, including The Grace of Distance (LSU Press, 2019) and the book-length poem Dear Almost (LSU Press, 2016), honored with the Lascaux Prize for Collected Poetry. His work has also been recognized with a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress, as well as fellowships from the Bronx and New Jersey arts councils and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. He lives with his wife and son in New Jersey.  Brendan Lorber is a poet, prose writer, and editor who lives in a little castle on the highest geographic point in Brooklyn, across from the Green-Wood Cemetery. Over two decades in the making, his first full-length book just came out. It’s called If this is paradise why are we still driving? and is published by the Subpress Collective. He’s also written several chapbooks, most recently Unfixed Elegy and Other Poems (Butterlamb) He’s appeared in the American Poetry Review, Fence, McSweeney’s, Brooklyn Rail, and elsewhere.

The September edition of the Show Do Tell Reading Series: Aida Zilelian is a New York writer and English teacher. Her debut novel The Legacy of Lost Things was released in March 2015 (Bleeding Heart Publications) and was the recipient of the 2014 Tololyan Literary Award. She has been featured on NPR, the New York Times, the Huffington Post, Kirkus Reviews, among other radio and print platforms. Most recently, her short story collection These Hills Were Meant for You was shortlisted for the 2018 Katherine Anne Porter Award. She is currently completing her third novel. Matthew Thorburn is the author of seven collections of poems, including The Grace of Distance (LSU Press, 2019) and the book-length poem Dear Almost (LSU Press, 2016), honored with the Lascaux Prize for Collected Poetry. His work has also been recognized with a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress, as well as fellowships from the Bronx and New Jersey arts councils and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. He lives with his wife and son in New Jersey. Brendan Lorber is a poet, prose writer, and editor who lives in a little castle on the highest geographic point in Brooklyn, across from the Green-Wood Cemetery. Over two decades in the making, his first full-length book just came out. It’s called If this is paradise why are we still driving? and is published by the Subpress Collective. He’s also written several chapbooks, most recently Unfixed Elegy and Other Poems (Butterlamb) He’s appeared in the American Poetry Review, Fence, McSweeney’s, Brooklyn Rail, and elsewhere.

Show Do Tell: Brendan Lorber, Aida Zilelian, Matthew Thorburn