Poet Brews Presents: A Featured Reading and Book Launch with Lydia Paar, Erik Bitsui, and Stacy Murison

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• Sunday, Sep 29, 2024  6:30pm - 8:30pm

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Join us for a very special Poet Brews! This is a book launch and featured reading, featuring Lydia Paar whose debut essay collection was just released! Lydia will read alongside local writers Erik Bitsui and Stacy Murison!
Lydia Paar is an essayist and fiction writer. Her essay, “Erasure,” was of notable mention in the 2022 Best American Essays collection, and was the 2020 winner of North American Review’s Terry Tempest Williams Creative Nonfiction Prize. The New England Review nominated her as a finalist for their 2021 Emerging Writers Award, and works of hers have also been showcased in such publications as Huffpost, Literary Hub, The Missouri Review, Essay Daily, Witness, Farmerish, Hayden's Ferry Review, and others. An MFA recipient from Washington University and an MA recipient from Northern Arizona University, Paar is also a former recipient of a Frederick and Frances Sommer Foundation Fellowship and of a Millay Arts Residency. She serves as co-editor for the NOMADartx Review and teaches writing at the University of Arizona. Her first full-length essay collection, The Entrance is the Exit: Essays on Escape, is forthcoming from the University of Georgia Press here: https://ugapress.org/.../978082.../the-exit-is-the-entrance/
Erik Bitsui, a Navajo from Blue Gap, Arizona, has an MFA from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. Bitsui’s first book, Mosh Pit Etiquette, Volume One: Secrets of a 21st Century Navajo Headbanger, was published in November 2023 by Tolsun Books. Hostiin Bitsui lives with wife and two daughters in East Flagstaff.
Stacy Murison is a Flagstaff-based educator and writer whose work has appeared in literary journals such as Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, Flash Fiction Magazine, Hong Kong Review, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and The Rumpus among others. Her work also appears in Flagstaff Live! as a Letter from Home columnist. She holds an MA in Liberal Studies/Humanities from Georgetown University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Northern Arizona University.