A monthly in-house reading series with new guests each month, beginning with social time at 5:30 pm followed by the reading/music from 6:00 – 7:30 pm. Guests will include writers of all genres and (frequently) musicians.

Thursday, September 21 features Tricia Currans-Sheehan & Jeanne Emmons.

Tricia Currans-Sheehan is Professor Emerita at Briar Cliff University and was founding editor of The Briar Cliff Review. She has published in Big Muddy, Connecticut Review, Crab Orchard Review, VQR, Fiction, Portland Review, Calyx, South Dakota Review and other journals.  Her collection of stories, The Egg Lady and Other Neighbors, won The Headwaters Literary Competition, sponsored by New Rivers Press. Currans-Sheehan’s second book, The River Road: A Novel in Stories, was an Honorable Mention for the Nashville Prize. Recently, she published a YA trilogy (Scaled, Outside In and Tongues of Light) with writing partner Jeanne Emmons, under the pen name of J.T. Ashmore.

Jeanne Emmons’ collections of poetry include: The Red Canoe (Finishing Line Press); The Glove of the World (winner of the Backwaters Press Reader’s Choice Award); Baseball Nights and DDT (Pecan Grove Press); and Rootbound (winner of the New Rivers Press Minnesota Voices Award). Her poems have appeared in many literary journals and have won the Comstock poetry prize, the South Coast Review Poetry Award, the James Hearst Poetry Award, and the Sow’s Ear poetry award. She and writing partner Tricia Currans-Sheehan have published the young adult “Deep Skin Series” under the pseudonym J.T. Ashmore.