Youssef Alaoui-Fdili with SJ Sindu and Karen Tucker

This reading event presents Youssef Alaoui-Fdili, the second Spring resident for new the 100 Thousand Poets for Change On Lake Jackson Residency Program-Tallahassee, FL. Come out and mix it up!

Readers include:

Youssef Alaoui-Fdili, poet and publisher of Paper Press, is a Moroccan-Latino, born in California. His family and heritage are an endless source of inspiration for his varied writings. He has an MFA in Poetics from New College of California. There, he studied Classical Arabic, Spanish Baroque and Contemporary Moroccan poetry. He is also well versed in the most dour and macabre literature of the 19th Century. His poems have appeared in Exquisite Corpse, 580 Split, Cherry Bleeds, Carcinogenic Poetry, Red Fez, Big Bridge, Dusie Press, and nominated for a Pushcart at Full of Crow. Youssef is an original creator of the East Bay literary arts festival “Beast Crawl.” His book of short stories, Fiercer Monsters, will be published by Nomadic Press in 2017.
http://youssefalaoui.tumblr.com/

SJ Sindu’s debut novel, Marriage of a Thousand Lies, is forthcoming in 2017 from Soho Press. She was a 2013 Lambda Literary Fellow and her hybrid fiction and nonfiction chapbook, I Once Met You But You Were Dead, was the winner of the 2016 Split Lip Turnbuckle Chapbook Contest. Sindu’s creative writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Brevity, The Normal School, The Los Angeles Review of Books, apt, Vinyl Poetry, PRISM International, Fifth Wednesday Journal, rkvry quarterly, and elsewhere. http://sjsindu.com/

Karen Tucker’s recent fiction has appeared in EPOCH, Carve Magazine, American Literary Review, upstreet, and Salamander. Born and raised in North Carolina, she has been awarded an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant for Emerging Writers and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Currently she lives in Tallahassee, where she’s working toward a PhD in Creative Writing at Florida State. https://www.karentucker.com/ Read one of her stories here: http://www.americanliteraryreview.com/karen-tucker.html