Gulf Coast Reading Series

Gulf Coast Magazine, in collaboration with Brazos Bookstore, hosts its annual reading series for MFA and PhD students of Creative Writing at the University of Houston. Don't miss the first reading of the 2009-2010 season. September's reading features our most ridiculously alliterative lineup to date: newcomers Adam Day (poetry Adam) and Adam Peterson (fiction Adam) will share the mic with second-year poet Adrienne Fisher. Come see the brave souls who volunteered to read first; they must be confident for a reason, right?

ADAM DAY’s work has been published in the Boston Review, American Poetry Review, Guernica, The Kenyon Review, Verse Daily, AGNI, The Iowa Review, BOMB, and elsewhere, and has been nominated for a 2008 Pushcart Prize, and included in Best New Poets 2008. He is the recipient of a Kentucky Arts Council grant, and his chapbook, Badger Speaks, will be published by Destructible Heart Press in 2009. He coordinates the Baltic Writers Residency in Latvia, and is a contributing editor to the online literary journal Memorious.

ADRIENNE FISHER attended the University of Virginia for her BA. After graduation, she spent two years living and working first in Prague, where she taught English and chased trams, and then Canada, where she earned her bread cleaning pots, braiding onions, and running huskies. This summer she was a faculty member for Boldface, a writing conference for emerging writers here in Houston, and attended Sewanee. She is currently a rising second-year UH poet in Houston’s MFA program, happily employed with WITS and swing-dancing regularly.

ADAM PETERSON comes to Houston from Nebraska where he co-founded The Cupboard, a quarterly prose chapbook series. His fiction has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review, Indiana Review, and Cincinnati Review, among other journals. Sometimes people tell him something he wrote is poetry and he says okay.