An Evening with Local Authors: Sarah Green, Sonya Larson, & Jonathan Escoffery

About the Authors:
Sarah Green is the author of a previous chapbook, Skeleton Evenings, which won the 2014 New Women’s Voices Series prize and was published by Finishing Line Press. Her work has appeared in Best New Poets 2012, Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, The Incredible Sestina Anthology, FIELD, Gettysburg Review, Passages North, Mid-American Review, Pleiades, and elsewhere.

Sonya Larson: Sonya’s short fiction and nonfiction has appeared in or is forthcoming in American Short Fiction, the American Literary Review, Poets & Writers, Audible.com, West Branch, Del Sol Review, The Red Mountain Review, and The Hub. She has received awards and honors from Best American Short Stories 2015, Glimmer Train, Meridian, the American Literary Review, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is at work on a novel about a Chinese community living in rural Mississippi in the 1930s, which earned her an Emerging Artist Award from the St. Botolph Club Foundation. In 2015 she was awarded the Grace Paley Fiction Fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center.

Sonya received her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she served as editor of The Madison Review, and is currently studying fiction in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She is the Assistant Director of the Muse Conference at Grub Street.

Jonathan Escoffery’s family emigrated to the U.S. from Jamaica, in order to escape the political violence that swept the island the year before he was born. He was raised in Miami, where he received his undergraduate education. He graduated from FIU with his B.A. in English Literature. While attending college, Jonathan worked as a dishwasher, a server, a loader in two separate warehouses, an overnight freight associate, an unlicensed physical therapist, a leasing agent, a (failed) life insurance salesman, and a night auditor.
Jonathan is a graduate of the University of Minnesota’s Creative Writing MFA Program (Fiction, class of 2014), where he was a DOVE Fellow. In 2014, he was a Fellow at The Anderson Center. He has taught classes in poetry, creative nonfiction, and fiction at the University of Minnesota, and at GrubStreet in Boston, where he is an Instructor, Writing Consultant, and the Program and Advocacy Manager. His writing has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize (“The Pickle” 2013) and the AWP Intro to Journals Project (2014), and has received a Gesell Award Honorable Mention (2013). He was featured in The Coffin Factory’s MFA Corner Blog in 2012. He is also hard at work on his first novel.

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