December 16 • 8PM

THE URBANE ARTS CLUB

Josh Boardman is from Michigan. He is the author of the chapbooks Colossal (2025-present), Plantain (West Vine Press, 2018), and the Latin translation project We, Romans (2015). His work was shortlisted in the 2025 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration, selected as a finalist in the 2024 Fugue Prose Prize, and his stories have appeared in journals such as New York Tyrant, Catapult, and Dandruff Magazine. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, where he is working on his second novel and a collection of stories about his hometown.

Ry Cook is a Brooklyn-based poet/performer who is interested in the aesthetic potential of cringe. Their work has been published in the New Republic, the Baffler, Brooklyn Rail, Peel Lit, BOMB, Iterant, Archway Editions, and others. Their first chapbook, Freak of Nature, came out through Choo Choo Press this past year,  Their second, ASUSHUNAMIR, is out early next year through Blue Bag Press. 

Xochitl Gonzalez is the New York Times bestselling author of Anita de Monte Laughs Last, a Reese’s Book Club Pick longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and the award-winning novel Olga Dies Dreaming, named a Best of 2022 by The New York Times, TIME, Kirkus, Washington Post, and NPR. She is a staff writer for The Atlantic, where she was recognized as a 2023 Pulitzer Prize finalist in Commentary. Her forthcoming novel, Last Night in Brooklyn, is out on April 21, 2026 with Flatiron Books.

Anne-E. Wood is a fiction writer who lives in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in many journals, including New Letters, TLR, No Tokens, Chicago Quarterly Review and most recently in The Colorado Review. Her stories have been notable mentions in The Best American Nonrequired Reading Series and in the latest Pushcart Prize Anthology. She has an MFA from San Francisco State University and is an Associate Professor in the Writing Program at Rutgers Newark. 

Rachel Lyon is the author of Self-Portrait with Boy, a finalist for the Center for Fiction's 2018 First Novel Prize; and Fruit of the Dead, a finalist for the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize named a best book of 2024 by Oprah Magazine, Elle, and other outlets. Rachel’s short stories have appeared in One Story, The Rumpus, Electric Literature, and other publications. She has taught at institutions including Bennington College and the American University of Paris, where she was the 2024 Paris Writer in Residence. Originally from Brooklyn, NY, she lives with her family in Western Massachusetts.

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