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Spring 2020 Reading Series: Missouri Authors

February 16, 2020 by Kimberly Robinson

Come join us at the Union Club, located in Plaster Student Union, Suite 400, on February 20, 2020 at
6 p.m. for a fascinating evening of readings by none other than the graphic story-teller, Ron A. Austin and the riveting poet and essayist Jason Vasser-Elong.

 

Ron A. Austin, Author
Ron A. Austin, Author

Many of Austin’s short stories have been published in journals such as Masters Review, Pleiades, Story Quarterly, Ninth Letter, and several others. In 2015, Austin received a special mention in the annual anthology Pushcart Prize, and he received the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis, in 2016.

For his first book of linked stories, Avery Colt is a Snake, a Thief, a Liar, Austin was awarded the 2017 Nilsen Prize and is currently under consideration for the 2020 Pen/Robert W. Bingham Prize.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jason Vasser-Elong - Author
Jason Vasser-Elong, Author

Vasser-Elong’s new book of poetry, Shrimp, was released in 2018 and is a culmination of his love for anthropology and the search for his roots and his own culture. Vasser-Elong is one of 79 poets and essayists that contributed to the book Black Lives Have Always Mattered that was published in 2017. Black Lives Have Always Mattered gives us a first-hand glimpse of white privilege, racism, inequality, and other problems faced by African-Americans long before we knew about the Black Lives Matter movement.

Several of his poems have been pubished in Unveiling Visions: The Alchemy of the Black Imagination while The Canadian Journal for Netherlandic Studies has published his essay Treading the Atlantic.

 

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