This edition of the Anhinga Press readings promises to be a great one!

Join us to hear poetry from Tanya Grae, Peggy Kassees and Kristine Snodgrass.

Tanya Grae’s debut collection Undoll (YesYes Books, 2019) was a 2017 National Poetry Series finalist. She is also the author of the chapbook Lethe (Five Oaks Press, 2018). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in AGNI, Prairie Schooner, New Ohio Review, The Massachusetts Review, Barrow Street, Fjords, The Los Angeles Review, Post Road, The Florida Review, and elsewhere in journals and anthologies. Yusef Komunyakaa selected Grae’s poem “The Line of a Girl” to receive the 2016 Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival Poetry Prize.

As a manuscript, Undoll was finalist in seven other contests: the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize (2017), Four Way Levis Prize (2017), Barrow Street Prize (2017), Anhinga-Robert Dana Prize (2017), Permafrost Prize (U Alaska; 2017), Four Way Intro Prize (2016), and The Brittingham and Pollak Prizes (2016).

Grae is a PhD creative writing student at Florida State University. She holds a dual-genre MFA in poetry and fiction from Bennington College and a BA in English from Rollins College, where she received the Academy of American Poets Prize. She lives in Tallahassee with her daughters.

Peggy Kassees has written poetry and short stories since she was a child.  She designed and wrote for Flamingo Floyd’s Fantastic Florida House, a website about Florida for children from 2004 – 2007.  Her novel, an urban fantasy, is scheduled for publication October, 2011.  Les Gens: Into the Night, asks you to think of all the infinite forms sharing our world . . . of people who look like us, but are quite different; to think back to all the myths and legends told through the ages and know, deep in your most primitive self, that each one holds a thread of truth.

Peggy loves to write, read, knit, and teach others the joy of creating their own stories.  She lives in Tallahassee, Florida, where she imagines the possibilities and then writes about them.

Kristine Snodgrass is a poet, professor, and publisher. Kristine received an MFA in poetry from University of Miami Creative Writing Program where she was a James Michener Fellow.

As Co-director of  Anhinga Press, an independent poetry publisher that has published over 40 years of poets and writers, she is responsible for daily operations, including editorial an administrative.

Kristine is Associate Professor at Florida A&M University where she teaches poetry and composition.  Kristine is the founder of the campus literary journal, CaKe a journal of poetry & art; the journal offers a real life publishing opportunity for undergraduate students interested in publishing and creative writing.  She is the founder and curator of The FAMU Younger Poets Series held on Florida A&M's campus.  This is an ongoing reading series that features new voices in poetry from poets of color.

Kristine lives in Tallahassee, Florida with her husband, the poet and artist Jay Snodgrass, and their daughter.

Also featuring musical guest Billy Weeks!