Come here four AMAZING local writers at Quarry on your RVA Lit Crawl journey, 5-6pm! It's free, and it's super helpful if you let us know you're coming by registering. Thanks, friends!
About Camille DeAngelis: "I write novels (for readers of all ages), practical philosophy, and I wrote and updated the Moon Guide to Ireland from 2006 to 2019. I studied art history and Irish Studies at New York University and received my M.A. from the National University of Ireland, Galway. I'm a master-certified vegan lifestyle coach and educator through Victoria Moran's Main Street Vegan Academy, and an underlying value system of authentic compassion informs and nourishes my coaching and teaching practices." https://www.cometparty.com/
About Emily Okamoto-Green: Emily Okamoto-Green is a half-Japanese essayist, poet, and animal lover. Originally from Shizuoka-ken, Japan's green tea capital, her family relocated to Richmond, VA in 1998. A 2018 Graduate of George Mason University’s Honors and English Honors College, she graduated from GMU again in 2021 with her MFA in Poetry. Her accolades include the Virginia Downs Poetry Award, the Joseph Lohman III Poetry Prize, The Alan Cheuse International Writers Center 2020 fellowship, YesPoetry Magazine’s Poet of the Month, and inaugural winner of the Berkey Essay Contest.
About Yasmeen Jaaber: Yasmeen Jaaber is a writer, printmaker, performer and archivist. They are primarily interested in story-telling that complicates reality. Yasmeen runs Rover Magazine, which was developed in 2022 to contemplate the ideas of LGBTQ+ artists of color. They believe in knowledge as an infinite and renewable source to be tapped into and created from. Overall, Yasmeen is someone who strives to shed tears about once a day, enjoys coloring, lets the sun hit them till it burns, provides care and is in constant communication with the wind.
Website: r0vermag.com
About April Sopkin: April Sopkin writes fiction and personal essays. She was the 2024-25 writer-in-residence at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond, and was awarded a 2023 Elizabeth George Foundation grant to support her in-process short story collection. Her work has appeared in Joyland, MIT Technology Review, Carve, Southern Indiana Review, and elsewhere. She was a 2019 Tin House Scholar and her work has won the Raymond Carver Short Story Contest, the Patricia Aakhus Award, and the Frank McCourt Memoir Prize. April’s work has also been supported by fellowships and artist residencies, including the Tin House Summer Workshop, TENT: Creative Writing at the Yiddish Book Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She writes Something Out of Nothing, a monthly newsletter about making, finding, and offering meaning.