Reading by Claire Luchette & Morgan Thomas

Claire Luchette is the author of the novel Agatha of Little Neon and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree. Claire's work has appeared in Best American Short Stories, VQR, Ploughshares, The New York Times, Granta, and the Kenyon Review. Their story "New Bees" won a 2020 Pushcart Prize. They've received fellowships and support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. They teach creative writingat Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York. 

Morgan Thomas is a writer from the Gulf Coast. Their debut story collection, MANYWHERE, was published by MCD-FSG and a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, Lambda Literary’s Transgender Fiction Prize, the LA Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and Publishing Triangle’s Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction. Their work has appeared in The Atlantic, American Short Fiction, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. In 2022, they received Lambda Literary’s Judith Markowitz Award for Exceptional New LGBTQ+ Writers. They are currently a Shearing Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute.