Gulf Coast Reading Series

Through a collaboration with Brazos Bookstore, Gulf Coast Magazine is proud to present the next three readers from the University of Houston’s nationally-acclaimed graduate program in creative writing.

Will Donnelly is a second-year PhD student, writing instructor, and fiction writer at the University of Houston. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he was a Teaching-Writing Fellow. His fiction has appeared in Smokelong Quarterly, Hobart, the Potomac Review, Quick Fiction, and Jump! Magazine. He grew up in Gainesville, Florida.

Briana Rochelle Olson is a second-year fiction student in the University of Houston's MFA program. A native of Albuquerque, New Mexico, she holds a BA from the University of Washington. Her writing has appeared in Pindeldyboz and The American Drivel Review.

Rebecca Wadlinger has worked in intaglio printmaking, editing, and Norwegian translation. She comes to Houston from the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, where she organized and operated a medical equipment lending library to redistribute prostheses and other medical necessities. Her poetry can most recently be found in Anti-, The Cimarron Review, and the Best New Poets anthology.