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b"Where is all of the literary love for Queens? It\\u2019s right here at\\xa0LIC Reading Series. Join them each week for stories, readings, and discussions with acclaimed writers, recorded with a live audience in the cozy carriage house of a classic pub in Long Island City, Queens, New York, and hosted by founder Catherine LaSota.\\nThis week, the podcast features the reading and panel discussion from the LIC Reading Series event on December 12, 2017, with Abeer Hoque (Olive Witch), Sarah Perry (After the Eclipse), and Jason Tougaw (The One You Get). Listen to this week's reading here.\\nAbeer Hoque\\xa0is a Nigerian born Bangladeshi American writer and photographer. She published a book of linked stories, poems, and photographs called\\xa0The Lovers and the Leavers, and a monograph of travel photographs and poems called\\xa0The Long Way Home. Her memoir,\\xa0Olive Witch, was published by Harper360 in 2017. She is the recipient of a 2018 Queens Council for the Arts grant, a 2014 NYFA grant, a 2012 NEA Literature Fellowship, a 2007 Fulbright Scholarship, and the 2005 Tanenbaum Award, and has received writing fellowships to attend Sacatar, Saltonstall Arts Colony, SLS St. Petersburg, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Millay Colony, and the Albee Foundation.\\nSarah Perry\\xa0holds an M.F.A. in nonfiction from Columbia University, where she served as publisher of\\xa0Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art\\xa0and was a member of the journal\\u2019s nonfiction editorial board. She is the recipient of a Writers\\u2019 Fellowship from the Edward F. Albee Foundation and a Javits Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Education, and has attended residencies at Norton Island in Maine and PLAYA in Oregon. Perry\\u2019s prose has appeared in\\xa0Blood & Thunder\\xa0magazine,\\xa0Bluestockings Literary Journal, Elle.com, and\\xa0The Guardian. Her memoir\\xa0After the Eclipse\\xa0was published in Fall 2017 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. She lives in Brooklyn.\\nJason Tougaw\\xa0is associate professor of English at Queens College, City University of New York. He is the author of\\xa0The One You Get: Portrait of a Family Organism\\xa0and\\xa0Strange Cases: The Medical Case History and the British Novel. He blogs at\\xa0californica.net.\\n*\\nThis event was made possible in part by the Queens Council on the Arts, with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices"