Fire Hydrant Reading Series #7 Ft: Sheila McMullin and Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers
Our seventh in the Fire Hydrant Reading Series.
Sheila McMullin is a 2020 Arts for LA Arts Delegate and the author of daughterrarium, selected by Daniel Borzutzky for Cleveland State University Poetry Center's First Book Prize. As a youth organizer and literacy coach, she co-edited The Day Tajon Got Shot, the Black Lives Matter novel-in-stories written by middle school writers from the Beacon House community center in NE Washington DC, and Humans of Ballou, the non-fiction collection of high school students living in Anacostia who know a different side of Washington DC, both from Shout Mouse Press. She currently resides in Los Angeles, CA, where she has apprenticed under Marysia Miernowska at the Gaia School of Healing and Earth Education and is practicing sacred plant medicine and alchemizing plants into paper. For more on her publications, visit www.moonspitpoetry.com.
Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers is the author of two poetry collections: THE TILT TORN AWAY FROM THE SEASONS (ACRE BOOKS, 2020), a Rumpus Book Club pick, and CHORD BOX ( U of Arkansas Press, 2013), a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Her poems can be found in Boston Review, Shenandoah, Crazyhorse, Beloit Poetry Journal, Bennington Review, and elsewhere. Her creative nonfiction can also be found in Best American Nonrequired Reading, Best American Travel Writing, The Missouri Review, Prairie Schooner, and other journals. A former Kenyon Review Fellow, she has taught at a number of colleges and universities, most recently Hendrix College, where she was the Murphy Visiting Fellow in English. She lives in Washington, DC, with her wife and son.
