This Thursday at Brooklyn Reading Works (BRW), another great event you won't want to
miss. Raina Washington, recipient of the Audre Lorde and Creative Writing
Awards at Brooklyn College, curates an evening of exciting new writing by
writers from the MFA program at Brooklyn College.

As usual, it's all happening at the Old Stone House in Park Slope (Fifth Avenue and Third Street) at 8 p.m. A $5 donation is appreciated and includes blender drinks and snacks.

Maisy Card was born in Jamaica but raised in Queens New York. She is happily now a resident of Brooklyn. She is a second year writer in the Brooklyn College MFA program and a member of the Brooklyn Writers Space. Maisy’s work explores characters and reinvents memories of life in Jamaica.

Andy Hunter has served as editor-in-chief of various publications, including The Brooklyn Review, Mean Magazine, and Lollapalooza Magazine.  In 2005, his short fiction won the James Kirkwood prize, and in 2008 he obtained his Masters in Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Brooklyn College. He is working on his first novel.

Kristen Meinzer is a Brooklyn-based writer. She received a BA in cultural studies and comparative literature from the University of Minnesota in 1999, an interdisciplinary MA in public history and consumer culture from NYU in 2005, and an MFA in fiction writing from Brooklyn College in 2008. While at Brooklyn College, she served as Associate Fiction Editor of the Brooklyn Review, and was a recipient of the Himan Brown Award in Creative Writing. In 2008, she was granted a fellowship with the Willard R. Espy Literary Foundation. Kristen's current project, entitled The Year Of Asking (www.theyearofasking.com), documents her attempts to receive something everyday, and receive it for free, for an entire year.

Felise Nguyen was unworriedly conceived in Saigon then born with some difficulty in San Francisco then raised with much difficulty in Houston.  She has chronic difficulty answering the question, Where are you from?, except when she’s traveling, in which case she easily answers “Brooklyn”.  She is a graduate of Barnard College, and the University of Chicago Law School where she was taught by Martha Nussbaum and Barack Obama.  She has every intention of receiving her M.F.A. from Brooklyn College this May.  She currently divides her time between working as a legal analyst and seeking a cause larger than herself, which should be easy because she is very small.

Raina Washington never though she’d live to see the day when ass cleavage is no longer a big deal. She was recently a NYC Teaching Fellow, where she was not only allowed, but paid to teach English to 6th graders. She is slowly getting her brain back. Raina likes to raise the dead in her writing – giving new voices to people from long ago. All writing is a kind of love letter to these folks. Her work has appeared in Tarpaulin Sky and The Olive Tree Review. Raina’s play “Reading the Meter” was performed at the Little Theater at Dixon Place. She has received the Audre Lorde and Creative Writing awards. Raina has a coveted writing MFA from Brooklyn College. Please wish her well as she moves to Washington DC this summer.