Next Friday at the Brookline Booksmith we're fortunate to have Anna Ziering, Eylsia Smith, Jennifer Murphy, Maggie
Bohara, Ben Zuerlein, and Rachel
Hezekiah. We hope to see you downstairs at 7:00!
A Boston-area native, Anna Ziering is currently pursuing her MFA in poetry
at Boston University. She has spent the past six years in New York, where she
studied poetry under Saskia Hamilton and Sean Singer at Barnard College and
worked as a paralegal at the ACLU.
Maggie Bohara is a second year MFA candidate in fiction at
Emerson College and a part-time ceramicist at
Brookline's Feet of Clay Studio. When not writing or making pottery, she
enjoys spending time with her
husband, two cats and dog.
Elysia Smith writes poems about things she
doesn't understand--in an effort to understand them, of course. She's an avid
people watcher who might possibly be described by fellow T passengers as
creepy. However, it is this unabashed staring that has led her to some of her
wildest poems and closest friends. Currently, she watches too much Frasier
between helping organize the undergraduate Writer's Community at U-Mass and
attending classes for her MFA. She will not buy you a beer but does apologize
for making eye-contact with you while reading poems about sex.
Jennifer Murphy writes Fiction. Prior to earning her B.A.
with a concentration in Creative Writing from Arizona Sate University, Murphy
worked as a Camp Ranger for the AZ Girl Scout Council on Phoenix’s South
Mountain Preserve for 10 years. She is an MFA candidate at the University of
Massachusetts Boston and lives with her wife and two cats in a small apartment
above a garage.
Originally from Salem, MA, Rachel Hezekiah has been writing
poems since she was scrawling Lady MacBeth’s soliloquy on her windows in
dry-erase marker. Now she’s working on the larger project of not
writing poems about birch trees. Her work has been published in Insanity’s Horse, Mixed Reader, Everyday Other Things, and
anthologized in Other Tongues: Mixed Race
Women Speak Out.
