Show Do Tell: Dana Roeser, Jessica Stilling, Christina Connett-Gonzalez

Show Do Tell: A Reading Series & Art Review

Dana Roeser’s fourth book, All Transparent Things Need Thundershirts, won the Wilder Prize at Two Sylvias Press and was published in September 2019. She is also the author of The Theme of Tonight’s Party Has Been Changed, recipient of the Juniper Prize, as well as Beautiful Motion and In the Truth Room, both winners of the Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize. Among her many awards and honors are the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award, the Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Washington Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, and numerous residencies in the U.S. and abroad. She has read her work widely and taught in the MFA programs in poetry at Purdue, Butler, and Wichita State Universities. Recent poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Pushcart Prize XLIII, Crazyhorse, Laurel Review, North American Review, Indianapolis Review, and Notre Dame Review. For more about Dana Roeser, please see www.danaroeser.com. Jessica Stilling's second novel, The Beekeeper's Daughter, was published this December, along with her YA novel, Into the Fairy Forest. Jessica has published in numerous magazines and journals including The Warwick Review, Ms. Magazine, Bust Magazine and The Writer Magazine. She teaches at The Gotham Writers Workshop and currently lives in New York City. Christina Connett-González is a fiction writer and poet. Her work has appeared in H.O.W. Journal, where she later served as Assistant Editor. She teaches creative writing to the youth at Writopia Lab in Manhattan. When not writing, Christina spends her time training, competing in obstacle course races, and reading everything on Earth. She lives in Queens.