The Hunger of the Cheeky Sisters Book Reading & Art presents a themed reading on girlhood, coming of age, and the female body with Lauren Rindaldi, Dawn Lonsinger, Laura Madeline Wiseman, Kimberly Rinaldi, Elizabeth Akin Stelling, Shevaun Brannigan, Marion Cohen, and Elliott batTzedek, 3-5 pm, Sunday March 22nd, 2015, at Paradigm Gallery + Studio, located 746 South 4th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147.
Elliott batTzedek holds an MFA in Poetry and Poetry in Translation from Drew University; her translation manuscript of “Dance of the Lunatic” by the Israeli Jewish lesbian writer Shez won the 2012 Robert Bly Translation prize, judged by Martha Collins. She is the events coordinator for Big Blue Marble Bookstore, cofounder of QuillsEdge Press, and founder of Poetry Business Manager. Her work appears or is forthcoming in the journals: American Poetry Review, Massachusetts Review, Naugatuck River Review, Lambda Literary Online, and Sinister Wisdom, and in the anthologies: Passageways: the 2012 Two Lines Translation Anthology, and Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence. She blogs about poetry and translation at thisfrenzy.com.
Shevaun Brannigan is a graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars, as well as The Jimenez-Porter Writers’ House at The University of Maryland. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in such journals as Best New Poets 2012, Rhino, Court Green, and Crab Orchard Review. She is the first place recipient of the 2015 Jan-ai Scholarship through the Winter Poetry and Prose Getaway. Her favorite poetry gig is the workshop she leads at her local Domestic Violence Shelter, and her work can be found at shevaunbrannigan.wordpress.com.
Marion Deutsche Cohen‘s latest poetry book is “Lights I Have Loved” (Red Dashboard Press). Her books total 24, including “Still the End: Memoir of a Nursing Home Wife” (Unlimited Publishing) and its prequel memoir, “Dirty Details: The Days and Nights of a Well Spouse” (Temple University Press), as well as “Crossing the Equal Sign” (Plain View Press), poetry about the experience of mathematics. She teaches math and writing at Arcadia University in Glenside PA, where she has developed the course, Truth and Beauty: Mathematics in Literature.
dawn lonsinger is the author of Whelm (winner of the 2012 Idaho Prize in Poetry). Her poems and lyric essays have appeared in American Poetry Review, Black Warrior Review, Crazyhorse, Colorado Review, Best New Poets 2010, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Cornell University, a PhD from the University of Utah, and is Assistant Professor at Muhlenberg College where she teaches courses in Creative Writing and Literature & Film of Apocalypse and Monstrosity. She, like other organisms, has a thing for light.
Kimberly Rinaldi is an animal lover, fit model, and local art supporter who lives and works in Philadelphia PA.
Lauren Rindaldi is originally from Brooklyn, New York. She received her BFA in Painting from Tyler School of Art in 2006. She is a painter, illustrator and has worked on various projects with The City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program. Her most recent visual works have been exhibited at Paradigm Gallery + Studio in Philadelphia and Scope Miami Beach – International Contemporary Art Show in Miami. She currently resides in Philadelphia with her husband and son.
Born in Fort Worth, and raised in Carrollton, Texas, on Stockyard Rodeos and Pioneer Days in the 60-70s—Elizabeth Akin Stelling is a wife, mother, chef, a writer, activist for CHD and grief counselling, after losing her daughter to heart disease in 2000. She is also the brain child behind dis*or*der, Mental Illness and its Affects, a yearly anthology published by RedD, and is dedicated to her deceased mother who sufffered from various mental disorders. Elizabeth is managing editor of Red Dashboard LLC, Z-composition, Annapurna and Cowboy Poetry, and has works published in The Texas Observer, vox poetica, Referential Magazine, Linden Avenue Literary Journal, Curio Poetry, Wordgathering, River Review, Tuck Magazine, CrazyLitMag, 2014-San Angelo College Anthology, Literary Mamma, and various culinary trade magazines. Chef E’s food poetry has been heard on CroptoCuisine Radio, out of Boulder, CO. She is also studies Southwestern history for her wild west revivalist writing/poetry, and is a current member of Texas State Historical Association.
Laura Madeline Wiseman is the author of twenty books and chapbooks and the editor of Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence (Hyacinth Girl Press). Her recent books are Drink (BlazeVOX Books), Wake (Aldrich Press), American Galactic (Martian Lit Books), and the collaborative book The Hunger of the Cheeky Sisters (Les Femmes Folles) with artist Lauren Rinaldi. Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Margie, Mid-American Review, and Feminist Studies. Currently, she teaches English and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. www.lauramadelinewiseman.com
