A Reading; or, Six Writers Walk Into a Bookstore Paperback Launch with Katie Yee Featuring Hannah Bae, Kukuwa Fraser, Mark Galarrita, Jen Lue, and Randy Winston

Celebrate the paperback launch of Maggie; Or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into A Bar and the key role that friends play in our lives on and off the page with readings of original work! Featuring Hannah Bae, Kukuwa Fraser, Mark Galarrita, Jen Lue, Randy Winston, and Katie Yee:

Katie Yee is a writer from Brooklyn. She has received fellowships from the Center for Fiction, the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and Kundiman. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Joyland, No Tokens, The Believer, the Washington Square Review, and Literary Hub. By day, she works at the Brooklyn Museum. By night, she writes, usually under the watch of her judgmental rescue dog, Ollie.

Maggie; or, a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar is her first novel.

Hannah Bae is a freelance journalist and nonfiction writer who is at work on a memoir about family estrangement and healing after surviving an abusive childhood. In 2024, she was a New York State Council on the Arts grantee and a juror in nonfiction for The Kirkus Prize. She was the 2020 nonfiction winner of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, a 2022 and 2021 Peter Taylor Fellow for The Kenyon Review Writers Workshops, and a 2019 fellow at Asian American Writers’ Workshop.

Kukuwa Fraser (née Ashun) is a writer and editor from Brooklyn, New York. A progeny of Ghanaian immigrants, Kukuwa holds a BA in creative writing from SUNY Purchase and an MFA from New York University. She was a 2021 Kweli Writing Fellow, 2023 Artist-in-Residence at the Silver Sun Foundation, and a 2023 Kimbilio Fellow. She is working on a novel.

Mark Galarrita is the son of a post office worker from Mindanao and a finance clerk from Manila who immigrated to New Jersey. He is a graduate of the 2017 Clarion West Writers Workshop and his writing can be found in McSweeney’s, Electric Literature, Nightmare, Split Lip, and elsewhere. His play, MANNY PACQUIAO PUNCHES THE WORLD BUT THE EARTH DOESN’T EVEN FLINCH, was a finalist in the 2020 Arts in the Armed Forces contest judged by David Henry Hwang. Previously he was the Editor-In-Chief of The Whiting Award-winning journal: The Black Warrior Review. He was a McNair Fellow at the University of Alabama MFA program and the recipient of the Don F. Hendrie, Jr. Short Story Prize in 2018, 2020, and 2021. Currently he works at Scribner Books

Jen Lue is a former Center for Fiction/Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellow and a 2021 NYSCA/NYFA fiction finalist. She is the recipient of fellowships and residencies from Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Kundiman, VONA/Voices, Tin House, Jerome Foundation, and Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, among others. Her work has been featured in The Margins, Narrative, BOMB Magazine, and Joyland. She works for The Moth and serves on the advisory committee for Film Forum.

Randy Winston is a writer of fiction and nonfiction from Atlanta, Georgia. He is the Writing Programs Manager at The Center for Fiction, former editor at Slice Literary Magazine, and creator of “Milkshake Scholar,” a milkshake interview series on Instagram. He earned his MFA in Creative Writing from The New School.