Upcoming Events

The Hungry Young Poets Summer Reading Series 2011 Season
7:30 p.m.
Duff's Restaurant
392 North Euclid Ave
St. Louis, MO 63110
$3

June 20:

Kelli Allen's work has appeared in numerous publications, and she is the author of two chapbooks: Picturing What Breaks and Applied Cryptography. She is the Managing Editor of Natural Bridge.

Christopher Maggio is studying English at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. His story "Exclamatory Statements" won first place in River Styx's Fourth Annual Schlafly Beer Micro-Brew Micro-Fiction Contest.

Zach Pettit spent a year studying at University of Missouri-Rolla before he rediscovered a love of writing. He is currently studying poetry.

Abigail Radetic is currently a student of poetry writing and has written in multiple genres.

Melissa Scholes Young is completing her MFA in fiction at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, where she teaches and serves as an assistant editor for Crab Orchard Review. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Tampa Review and many other publications.

Jonathan Travelstead is a full-time firefighter who also studies poetry at Southern Illinois University Carbondale's MFA program.

July 18:

Katie Cortese is a PhD student in fiction at Florida State University. She won first place in the 2011 River Styx Schlafly Beer Micro-Fiction Contest and is published or forthcoming in New South, Passages North, The Comstock Review, and others. She currently serves as editor of The Southeast Review.

Alec Hershman is an Ann Arbor transplant living in St. Louis, where he teaches at St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley and at the Stevens Institute of Business and Arts downtown. His work has appeared in Phoebe, Salamander, CutBank, Washington Square, The Sierra Nevada Review, and others.

Sarah Lindsay graduated with BAs in English and professional writing from Michigan State University this May. She is now living in St. Louis and working as a River Styx intern.

Andrew McSorley is beginning his second year of study in the MFA program at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He has previously studied creative writing at Valparaiso University and McNeese State, and he has been published in Blue Earth Review.

Austin Segrest is in the PhD program at University of Missouri-Columbia. His poems have won fellowships and awards, and been published in anthologies as well as journals that include The Yale Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, and River Styx.

Andrea Wagner is a second year MFA student at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She has been a River Styx intern and received a BA from Washington University.

August 15:

Luke Cumberland is a graduate of the University of Virginia Poetry Writing Program. He is currently pursuing his MFA at Washington University in St. Louis, where he will be teaching this fall. He has most recently been published on StatusHat.Org and is currently working on a translation chapbook of the Peruvian poet, Cesar Moro.

Haines Eason's poems have appeared in many journals including New England Review, Yale Review, Pleiades, and Indiana Review. He is an editor with Boulevard Magazine and contributes to American Book Review. In 2009 his chapbook, A History of Waves, was selected by Mark Doty for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship.

A native of St. Louis, Will Kyle earned his BA in English at the University of Iowa and is currently an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Will also performs as a singer/songwriter around St. Louis. His poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Barbaric Yawp, Greatest Lakes Review, Earthwords, Big Muddy, and elsewhere.

Joni Lee received her MFA in creative writing from the University of Missouri-Kansas City as a Stanley H. Durwood fellow. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Center: A Journal of the Literary Arts, H_NGM_N, and Permafrost.

Jessica Muckerman teaches literature and writing to high school students. She is currently working on her MFA at Lindenwood University. After graduating from Southeast Missouri State University, she has returned to her hometown to live and teach.

John A. Nieves's poems have been published or are forthcoming in journals such as Copper Nickel, Redivider, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Cortland Review, and Fugue. He won the 2010 Southeast Review AWP Short Poetry Contest. He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Missouri-Columbia.