PANEL DISCUSSION: Elisa Albert, Tanais, and Robin Wasserman
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 two-year anniversary event on November 15, 2016, with Elisa Albert (After Birth), Tanais (Bright Lines), and Robin Wasserman (Girls on Fire). Listen to the readings in the last episode!\\nAbout the Readers:\\nElisa Albert is the author of\\xa0After Birth\\xa0(2015),\\xa0The Book of Dahlia\\xa0(2008),\\xa0How This Night is Different\\xa0(2006), and the editor of the anthology\\xa0Freud\\u2019s Blind Spot\\xa0(2010).\\xa0Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Tin House, The New York Times, Post Road, The Guardian, Gulf Coast, Commentary, Salon, Tablet, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Believer, The Rumpus, Time Magazine, on NPR, and in many anthologies.\\xa0Albert grew up in Los Angeles and received an MFA from Columbia University, where she was a Lini Mazumdar Fellow.\\xa0A recipient of the Moment magazine emerging writer award and a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize, she has received fellowships from The Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Djerassi, Vermont Studio Center, The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in Holland, the\\xa0HWK\\xa0in Germany, and the\\xa0Amsterdam Writer's Residency.\\xa0She has taught at Columbia's School of the Arts, The College of Saint Rose, and is currently Visiting Writer at Bennington College.\\xa0\\xa0She lives in upstate New York with her family.\\nTana\\xefs (n\\xe9e Tanwi Nandini Islam) is the New York based author of the critically-acclaimed novel Bright Lines (Penguin 2015), which was a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, Edmund White Debut Fiction Award, the Brooklyn Eagles Literary Prize, and was the inaugural selection of the First Lady of NYC's Gracie Book Club, as well as Bustle's American Woman Book Club. Their work is multi-disciplinary, dynamic, intersectional and feminist. Over the course of their career, they\\u2019ve worked as a community organizer, a domestic violence court advocate, a probations intake officer, and youth arts educator.\\xa0While researching their debut novel, Bright Lines,\\xa0Tana\\xefs studied perfumery, amassing a library of 500 fragrant raw materials, which led to the creation of Hi Wildflower, independent beauty & fragrance house. Currently, Tana\\xefs is working on In Sensorium, an essay collection exploring scent, sensuality, South Asian and Muslim perfume cultures, colonization and its aftermath: the environmental and border crises around the world, as well as a second novel, Stellar Smoke. Their podcast and perfume anthology project, MALA, features interviews with survivors of violence, who reimagine their memories as scents. Season 1, featured five formerly incarcerated women in the NYS Penal System.\\nRobin Wasserman is a graduate of Harvard University and the author of several successful novels for young adults. A recent recipient of a MacDowell fellowship, she lives in Brooklyn, New York.\\xa0Girls on Fire\\xa0is her first novel for adults.\\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"