Join us for the next installment of the Charlottesville Reading Series, featuring Adam Roux, Lisa Dordal, and Juliana Daugherty. Refreshments will be provided. This event will be free and open to the public.
Adam Roux is a writer and translator from Massachusetts whose work has appeared in American Literary Review and Litro. He has an MFA in fiction from UVA, where he taught fiction for two years and was the editor of Meridian magazine. He is at work on a novel. Find out more about Adam and his work at adamroux.com.
Lisa Dordal, author of Mosaic of the Dark, holds both an MFA and an MDiv and teaches in the English department at Vanderbilt University. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee and the recipient of an Academy of American Poets University Prize, the Robert Watson Poetry Prize, and the Betty Gabehart Poetry Prize. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Best New Poets, Ninth Letter, CALYX, Vinyl Poetry, Bellevue Literary Review, DMQ Review, Connotation Press, Nimrod International Journal, The Feminist Wire, and Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse. Her website is lisadordal.com.
Juliana Daugherty is a poet, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter whose debut LP, Light, was released on Austin-based independent label Western Vinyl in June 2018. Her music has been featured on NPR’s All Songs Considered and her writing has appeared in journals including Boxcar Poetry Review, DIAGRAM, and Midwest Quarterly. She is a recipient of the Robert Watson Literary Prize from The Greensboro Review and the Graybeal-Gowen Prize from Shenandoah, and was selected as a finalist for the Indiana Review and Mississippi Review poetry prizes. She holds an MFA in poetry from UVA.
Juliana Daugherty photo credit: Tom Daly