Gulf Coast Reading Series

The best and brightest from the Univerity of Houston's Creative Writing Program read from their new work.

Sam Amadon is the author of Like a Sea, University of Iowa Press 2010, and The Hartford Book, Cleveland State University Poetry Center 2011. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in A Public Space, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Tin House, and elsewhere. He is from Hartford.

Liz Countryman is a PhD candidate at the University of Houston. Her poems have appeared in Forklift Ohio, Black Warrior Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Washington Square, H_NGM_N, and others. In 2011, she was named a finalist for the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay DiCastagnola Award for a manuscript in progress.

Thea Lim is an MFA candidate in fiction at the University of Houston, where she also moonlighted as a nonfiction editor at Gulf Coast. Her writing has been published by the Utne Reader, Bitch Magazine, and Jezebel, and she is pleased to report that her ideas on race and culture have started to infiltrate college textbooks. She grew up in Toronto and Singapore, and she has terrible taste in music.