An Evening with Richie Hofmann, Ananda Lima, and Michael Tyrell—via Zoom

Ananda Lima is the author of Mother/land (Black Lawrence Press, 2021), winner of the Hudson Prize, shortlisted for the Chicago Review of Books Chriby Awards. She is also the author of the chapbooks Vigil (Get Fresh Books, 2021), Tropicália (Newfound, 2021, winner of the Newfound Prose Prize), Amblyopia (Bull City Press, 2020), and Translation (Paper Nautilus, 2019, winner of the Vella Chapbook Prize). Her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poets.org, Kenyon Review Online, Gulf Coast, Colorado Review, Poet Lore, Poetry Northwest, Pleiades, and elsewhere. She has served as the poetry judge for the AWP Kurt Brown Prize, as staff at the Sewanee Writers Conference, and as a mentor at the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Immigrant Artist Program. She has been awarded the inaugural Work-In-Progress Fellowship by Latinx-in-Publishing, sponsored by Macmillan Publishers, for her fiction manuscript-in-progress. She has an MA in Linguistics from UCLA and an MFA in Creative Writing in Fiction from Rutgers University, Newark.

Michael Tyrell’s new collection, written over the course of more than two decades is The Arsonist’s Letters (Backlash Press, 2021). His work has appeared in Agni, The Best American Poetry 2015, The Iowa Review, The New England Review, The Night Heron Barks, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, The Yale Review, and many other magazines and anthologies. He’s the author of a book of poems, The Wanted (National Poetry Review, 2012), and a book of prose poems, Phantom Laundry (Backlash, 2017). With Julia Spicher Kasdorf, he edited Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn (2007).