Book Launch: Woman House by Lauren Westerfield

Wednesday, Apr 8

5:30pm – 7:00pm

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Join us for the launch of Lauren Westerfield's Woman House! Lauren W. Westerfield is the author of Woman House and Depth Control. Her essays and poetry have been published in FENCE, Seneca Review, Willow Springs, Denver Quarterly, Indiana Review, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere. Westerfield is a 2022 Idaho Commission on the Arts Literary Fellow. She teaches at Washington State University, where she serves as the editor-in-chief of Blood Orange Review. Eva Recinos is an award-winning arts and culture journalist and creative non-fiction writer based in Los Angeles. Her articles have been published in the Los Angeles Times, KCET, The Guardian, Hyperallergic, Art21, Aperture, Poets & Writers Magazine, and more. Her essays have appeared in Gulf Coast, Georgia Review, PANK, Blood Orange Review, Air/Light, Electric Literature and more. Her first collection of essays, Underneath the Palm Trees, is forthcoming in early 2027 from Northwestern University Press.  Chelsea Sutton is a writer and director based in Los Angeles. She’s a PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow, a graduate of the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Workshop, a Humanitas Play LA award-winner, and she co-wrote the Emmy-nominated Welcome to the Blumhouse Live, an interactive film event for Blumhouse/Amazon. Her short fiction has appeared in Uncanny Magazine, Apex Magazine, CRAFT Literary, and Bourbon Penn, among others, and was featured on the first season of It’s Storytime with Wil Wheaton. She is the author of the flash fiction chapbook Only Animals and the novella Krackle’s Last Movie (Split/Lip Press 2026). She recently co-created the holiday horror fiction podcast, Long Winter Nights. chelseasutton.com  Kim Young is an award-winning author of two books of poetry: Night Radio, winner of the Agha Ali Shahid Poetry Prize and finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, Tigerscelebrated in reviews and described by LA Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson as “mesmerizing,” and two poetry chapbooks. Herwriting has appeared in Alta Journal, LitHub, The Cincinnati Review, TriQuarterly, Western Humanities Review, Barrelhouse, LA Review of Books, Los Angeles Review, and other magazines and anthologies. She edited for many years the literary journal Chaparral, which featured interviews and new writing from Maggie Nelson, Jericho Brown, Victoria Chang and many others. She teaches at California State University Northridge where she directs a public humanities project called LA Public Poetry & Prose Project. She is currently at work on a hybrid book of memoir and biography on the late poet Lee McCarthy, and is represented by Bonnie Nadell at the Hill Nadell Literary Agency. www.kimyoungpoetry.com

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