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Please join us for the 16th annual Writers Festival, featuring renowned writers offering public readings!

This year's featured writers are Stephanie Griest, Kirstin Valdez Quade, and Airea D. Matthews.

May 8th reader: Airea D. Matthews is the author of the collections Bread and Circus (Scribner, 2023) and Simulacra, winner of the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. Matthews's work has appeared in Callaloo, Best American Poets 2015, Harvard Review, American Poet, and elsewhere. She was awarded a 2016 Rona Jaffe Writer’s Foundation Award, the 2016 Louis Untermeyer Scholarship from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts award as well as fellowships from Cave Canem, Callaloo, and the James Merrill House.  She is an associate professor at Bryn Mawr College and serves as Philadelphia’s sixth poet laureate.