Brazos Bookstore will be hosting Thomas H.McNeely and Leslie Contresras Schwartz in person on Wednesday, July 27 at 7:00 pm.
Face Masks are required to attend the event.
Seating for this event will be limited and first-come-first-serve.
Thomas H. McNeely is An East End Houston native, that has published short stories in The Atlantic, Ploughshares, and many other magazines and anthologies. His first book, Ghost Horse, was described by one reviewer “as if Cormac McCarthy and Denis Johnson teamed up to write a 1970s Texas YA novel that went off the rails somewhere—in a very, very good way.” He has received National Endowment for the Arts, Wallace Stegner, and Dobie Paisano fellowships for his fiction. He currently teaches in the Stanford Online Writing Studio and at Emerson College, Boston.
Leslie Contreras Schwartz is a multi-genre writer, a 2021 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow, and was the 2019-2021 Houston Poet Laureate. She is the author of four collections of poetry, including Black Dove / Paloma Negra (FlowerSong Press, 2020), which was named a finalist for the Helen C. Smith Memorial Award for 2020 Best Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters.
Her work has appeared in AGNI, Missouri Review, Iowa Review, [PANK], Verse Daily, Pleiades, Zocalo Public Square, Gulf Coast, and Houston Noir (Akashic Books, 2019). Recent work has been featured with the Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day.
She has collaborated or been commissioned for poetic projects with the City of Houston, the Houston Grand Opera, and The Moody Center of the Arts at Rice University. Her poet laureate community work includes writing a workshop resource book on mindfulness and writing, and producing a communal poetry video from poems submitted by Houstonians about their experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Contreras Schwartz is currently a poetry and nonfiction faculty member at Alma College’s MFA low-residency program in creative writing. For more on her work, visit lesliecschwartz.com.
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