JULY 23 • 8PM

THE URBANE ARTS CLUB

Belle Ling was born and raised in Hong Kong. She received her PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Queensland, Australia. Her poetry manuscripts were respectively shortlisted for the HKU International Poetry Prize, highly commended for the Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, and shortlisted for the First Book Poetry Prize of Puncher and Wattmann. Her poem, “63 Temple Street, Mong Kok,” was a co-winner in the Peter Porter Poetry Prize held by the Australian Book Review. Her other poem, “That Space,” won a second place in the ESL category of the International Poetry Competition organized by the Oxford Brookes University. Her poems can be found in Chicago Quarterly Review, World Literature Today, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Yuan Yang, Meanjin, Overland, Mascara Literary Review, and more. She is now working as a creative strategist at the HKU Guild. Belle Ling will be participating in the reading remotely.

Anthony Thomas Lombardi is a communist poet, educator, organizer, & romantic in revolt. His first book, murmurations, is out with YesYes Books. He believes in a Free Palestine (& thinks you should too) & hails from Brooklyn, where he lives with his cat, Dilla.

Heather McCalden is a writer and artist based in New York City. The Observable Universe, her debut memoir was published concurrently by Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK), Hogarth Books (US), and Editorial Sigilo (Argentina/Spain). She is the recipient of the 2021 Fitzcarraldo Essay Prize, and was a fellow at the Banff Center of the Arts Leighton Studio Residency. Her work can be found on Lithub, and the Financial Times (UK). 

Ruben Reyes Jr. is the son of two Salvadoran immigrants and the author of There is a Rio Grande in Heaven, which was a finalist for the Story Prize, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Harvard College. His writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, Slate, American Short Fiction, and other publications. Originally from Southern California, he now lives in Queens. Archive of Unknown Universes is his first novel.

Doors at 7:30pm. Show at 8pm. Free with RSVP.