JUNE 24 • 8PM

THE URBANE ARTS CLUB

Paula Bomer is the author most recently of The Stalker, which was a Vogue’s Best Books of the Year, an NPR’s Best Thriller of the Year, A Publisher’s Weekly Editor’s Pick, a New York Magazine’s Best Novel of the Year, and called “a knockout novel” in The Guardian. She is the author of the novels Tante Eva and Nine Months, the story collections Inside Madeleine and Baby and Other Stories, and the essay collection Mystery and Mortality. Her work has appeared in Fiction Magazine, The Mississippi Review, Full Stop, Volume 1 Brooklyn and elsewhere. She grew up in South Bend, Indiana and has lived in Brooklyn for over 35 years.

Alexa Brahme is an author based in Brooklyn, NY. She studied creative writing at Vanderbilt University and received her MFA in Fiction from The New School. Her short fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, the Robert J. Dau PEN Award, and Best of the Net. Good News is her debut novel.

Sara Youngblood Gregory is an award-winning lesbian journalist, editor, and author. She serves on the board of the lesbian literary and arts journal Sinister Wisdom, where she is currently editing the forthcoming Butch-Femme Renaissance issue. Sara's debut speculative poetry collection DEAD BOYS IN SPACE won the 2023 Pamet River Prize from YesYes Books and is out this May 2026.

Masae Satouchi is an author, artist, and founder of New York Kimono Academy. Nearly twenty years ago, she moved to New York in pursuit of a dream. Inspired by the magical power of color and its ability to transform lives, she unlocked her own potential and, based on that journey, published her book Color Magic: Unlocking the Door of Destiny in 2025. Her essay, My Name Is Masae, AKA Cathy, was published in The Literacy Review, Volume 22 by New York University Gallatin.

Jules Wernersbach is founder of Hive Mind Books, a queer independent bookstore in Bushwick, Brooklyn. They are coauthor of Vegan Survival Guide to Austin and their writing has appeared in, among others, Heavy Feather Review and Bennington Review. Wernersbach lives in Brooklyn, New York. WORK TO DO, their debut novel, is already in its second printing. Photo Credit Adelaide Coop

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