VOICES Reading Series: Allison Grace Myers and Jason Myers

Thu, Apr 21 2022, 8:15 - 9:15pm
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Allison Grace Myers received her MFA from Texas State University, where she held the 2014 - 2017 Rose Fellowship. Her writing has appeared widely in literary magazines including Crazyhorse, Texas Review, Image, Gulf Coast, and The Rumpus. She is also the winner of the John Steinbeck Award for Fiction, and received notable mention in Best American Essays. She lives in Texas with her family and is working on her first novel.

Jason Myers is a writer, editor, and transitional deacon in the Episcopal Diocese of Texas. He graduated from Bennington College, where he was the Catherine Osgood Foster Scholar, selected by Mary Oliver. He received an MFA from NYU and a Master of Divinity from Emory University, where he was an FTE Fellow nominated by Ebenezer Baptist Church. He founded Candler Creation Keepers for fellow ecologically-oriented theology students and was a Global Health Fellow, conducting research with MPH students in Haiti. He served as an associate pastor at Ebenezer while working as a chaplain at Atlanta Medical Center and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. His writing has been nominated for a Pushcart and Best New Poets, and was introduced by Campbell McGrath as part of American Poet's Emerging Poets feature. He is the executive director of EcoTheo Collective and editor-in-chief of EcoTheo Review. He lives with his wife, Allison Grace Myers, and their son Robinson in Houston.

 

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VOICES Reading Series
Jeffrey L Coleman
jlcoleman@smcm.edu
240-895-4240
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