Join us on April 25, to celebrate Amy Pence's debut novel, Yellow, with readings by Amy Pence, Corinne Cordasco-Pak, & Suqi Karen Sims!

Amy Pence’s work spans poetry, hybrid, fiction, interviews, and essays. Her full-length poetry collections include Armor, Amour and The Decadent Lovely. Her hybrid book [It] Incandescent won the 2018 Eyelands International Poetry Award. In 2019, she launched her chapbook Your Posthumous Dress: Remnants from the Alexander McQueen Collection with a fashion-art reading supporting a nonprofit addressing addiction. We Travel Towards It, from Serving House Books, 2025, explores personal and collective loss in the face of climate change-driven disasters. Red Hen Press published her debut novel, Yellow, this spring. Raised in New Orleans and Las Vegas, she lives in Atlanta.

Corinne Cordasco-Pak’s work has appeared in the The Kenyon Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Quarter Notes Magazine, Oyster River Pages, and other journals. She is an interview contributor at Write or Die Magazine and a former fiction editor of Revolute. Corinne has received support from the Virginia Center for Creative Arts and the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference and she holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Randolph College. She lives in Atlanta with her husband, toddler, and two rescue dogs.

Suqi Karen Sims was born and raised in Taichung, Taiwan. Her work has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, AGNI, Waterstone~Review, The Greensboro Review, and elsewhere. Her story “Niwawa (Clay Baby)” won the 2024 CALYX Journal Margarita Donnelly Prize for Prose Writing and she was a finalist in the Pinch Literary Awards and the Fractured Lit Elsewhere Prize. She received her PhD in English with a concentration in Creative Writing from Georgia State University and lives in Atlanta.