Reading featuring Barbara Wuest, author of Rhythms All Aquiver (Aldrich Press, 2020), and James Lewelling, author of Little Rooms (Deep Sett Press, 2014).

Barbara Wuest, a graduate of UC-Irvine’s MFA in Creative Writing, taught English and Creative Writing at Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee. Her poems have appeared in a variety of literary journals such as the Cape Rock, Wind Literary Journal, Laurel Review, the Paris Review, Cincinnati Poetry Review, Dogwood, CrossCurrents, Oberon, Beloit Poetry Journal, Wisconsin Academy Review, and others. Aldrich Press has published her three most recent collections of poetry: Rhythms All Aquiver (2020), Monarchs Fly Great Distance (2018), and Shadowy Third (2016). Among Others, a chapbook, was published by Finishing Line Press (2015). Through Slatted Blinds was published in 2013. She is also the author of a memoir, Drive Gently (2017).

James Lewelling has been writing fiction since 1988. He has written five novels and had three published (Little Rooms, Deep Sett Press, 2014; Tortoise, Calamari Press, 2008; and This Guy, Spuyten Duyvil, 2005). Over the years, his short fiction has appeared in a variety of literary venues ranging from the Cream City Review to The Stranger to the Evergreen Review to Fence. For the last twenty years he and his wife,  the poet Lisa Isaacson, have lived and worked in Abu Dhabi but have recently returned to Milwaukee, where James grew up.

Reading: Barbara Wuest and James Lewelling