Join us for PLG Arts’ Meet-the-Author Reading Series, a reading and book signing by two great local authors. Books will be for sale afterward, and great drinks and craft beers are available throughout the reading at the Inkwell bar.
Melissa Buzzeo is the author of four full-length books:
The Devastation (2015 Nightboat),
For Want and Sound (2013 Les Figues),
Face (2009 BookThug) and
What Began Us (2007 Leon Works). She teaches creative writing at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and maintains a radical palm reading practice. Currently she is working on a specific kind of memoir simply called
Writing.
Daniel José Older is the author of the “Bone Street Rumba” urban fantasy series from Penguin’s Roc Books and the young-adult novel
Shadowshaper (Scholastic’s Arthur A. Levine Books, 2015).
Publishers Weekly hailed him as a “rising star of the genre” after the publication of his debut ghost noir collection,
Salsa Nocturna. He co-edited the anthology “Long Hidden:
Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History. ” His short stories and essays have appeared in
The Guardian, NPR,
Tor.com, Salon, BuzzFeed, Fireside Fiction, New Haven Review, PANK, Apex and
Strange Horizons and the anthologies
Subversion and
Mothership: Tales Of Afrofuturism And Beyond.
Inkwell Cafe
408 Rogers Ave
(between Sterling St and Lefferts Ave)
Brooklyn, NY
Free Admission!