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Please join us for two prize-winning authors who write both poetry and fiction. We’ll talk about crossing genres, writing about visual art, and the process of literary prizes! All are welcome.
Jean P. Moore was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in Miami, Florida. She received her PhD in English and began her professional career teaching American literature and writing. Her work has appeared in newspapers, magazines, and literary journals such as upstreet, SN Review, The Timberline Review, Angels Flight Literary West, the Hartford Courant, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. Her novel Water on the Moon won the 2015 Independent Publisher Book Award for contemporary fiction. Her poetry chapbook Time’s Tyranny was nominated for the Massachusetts Book Award, 2018. Tilda’s Promise, a novel, was an NIEA finalist and won the NYC Big Book Award in contemporary fiction, 2019. Crossing from Shore to Shore, a novel, is published by Running Wild Press. Long a Connecticut resident, Jean now resides in the Berkshires in Massachusetts where she supports racial justice initiatives and facilitates a book discussion group.
Steven Ostrowski is a widely-published poet, fiction writer, painter and songwriter. His novel, The Highway of Spirit and Bone, was published in 2023 by Lefora Publications and has been called “…a literary road trip for the ages.” His poetry chapbook, Persons of Interest, won the 2021 Wolfson Chapbook Prize and was published in 2022. Steven and his son Ben coauthored a full-length collaboration called Penultimate Human Constellation, published in 2018 by Tolsun Books. Steven’s newest book of poems, Life Field, was published in early 2024 by Impspired Press (U.K.). He is Professor Emeritus at Central Connecticut State University. Website: www.stevenostrowski.org.