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b'Readings from the LIC Reading Series event on September 11, 2019, featuring Nancy Agabian (Me As Her Again), Trace DePass (Self-Portrait As the Space Between Us), Meera Nair (Video: Stories), and Alex Segura (Silent City). Check back Thursday for the discussion!\\nAbout our readers:\\nNancy Agabian\\xa0is the author of\\xa0Princess Freak\\xa0(Beyond Baroque Books, 2000), a mixed genre collection of poems, short prose, and performance texts on young women\\u2019s sexuality and rage, and\\xa0Me as her again: True Stories of an Armenian Daughter\\xa0(Aunt Lute Books, 2008) a memoir about the influence of her Armenian family\\u2019s history on her coming-of-age. Me as her again was honored as a Lambda Literary Award finalist for LGBT Nonfiction and shortlisted for a William Saroyan International Prize.\\nTrace Howard DePass, a 2018 Poets House Fellow, is the author of\\xa0Self-Portrait As the Space Between Us\\xa0(PANK Books, 2018) and editor of Scholastic\\u2019s\\xa0Best Teen Writing of 2017. He served as the 2016 Teen Poet Laureate for the Borough of Queens. His work has been featured on BET Next Level,\\xa0Billboard, Blavity, NPR\\u2019s\\xa0The Takeaway, and also resides in literary homes: Anomalous Press (fka Drunken Boat), Entropy Magazine, Split This Rock!, The Other Side of Violet, Best Teen Writing of 2015, & the East Coast Voices Anthology.\\nMeera Nair\\xa0is the author of\\xa0Video\\xa0(Pantheon) and the children\\u2019s books\\xa0Maya Saves the Day\\xa0and\\xa0Maya in a Mess\\xa0(Duckbill: India). Video won the 7th Annual Asian-American Literary Award and was a\\xa0Washington Post\\xa0Best Book of the Year. It was chosen as a Notable Book by the Kiriyama Pacific-Rim Prize, and was the Editor\\u2019s Choice at the\\xa0San Francisco Chronicle. Nair\\u2019s work has been featured on National Public Radio\\u2019s\\xa0Selected Shorts, the\\xa0Washington Post, the\\xa0New York Times, the Hindu and Huffington Post and in\\xa0Threepenny Review, Calyx, India Abroad,\\xa0Departures\\xa0magazine and in the anthologies\\xa0Charlie Chan is Dead-2,\\xa0Money Changes Everything, and\\xa0Delhi Noir.\\nAlex Segura\\xa0is the author of the Pete Fernandez mystery series set in Miami, short stories that have appeared in numerous anthologies, and a number of best-selling and critically acclaimed comic books. He also co-writes the\\xa0LETHAL LIT\\xa0podcast.\\n- - -\\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.\\n\\nThank you to our local sponsors: LIC Bar, Astoria Bookshop, Sweetleaf Coffee, Gantry Bar LIC, and LIC Corner Cafe.\\n\\nLearn more at licreadingseries.com\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'