May 11 – In Person
Jenny Grassl lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Boston Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Bennington Review, Lana Turner Journal, Fairytale Review, and others. Magicholia, her first book, was published by 3: A Taos Press in 2024. Her second book, Forever Mistaken for Ourselves, was chosen for publication by Tupelo Press for their 2024 Open Reading period.
Julia Thacker’s poems have appeared in Bennington Review, The Massachusetts Review, The New Republic, Pleiades and Poetry International. She has received fellowships from the Bunting Institute (Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study), the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her honors include residencies at Yaddo and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Most recently, she was an Edith Wharton Writer-in-Residence at The Mount in Lenox. Her collection, To Wildness, winner of the 19th Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, will be published by Waywiser Press in 2025. She lives in Arlington, Massachusetts.