Poetry and Prose is a reading series featuring UH faculty, students, alumni and other well-known writers that happens at the MD Anderson Library, Honors College Commons.

Readings are free and open to the public. This event will also be streamed live on YouTube.

The series is presented by the University of Houston Libraries in cooperation with the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. 

Bios

Maha Abdelwahab holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Oregon. Her work has appeared in The Adroit Journal, Rusted Radishes, The Recluse, and elsewhere. She is interested in spirituality, the politics of culture, and the intersections of the two.

Stephanie Pushaw is a writer from Los Angeles with an MFA in fiction from the University of Montana. Her work has been published in DIAGRAM, Narrative, Joyland, The Believer, The Masters Review, Mississippi Review and is upcoming in New Ohio Review.

Adele Elise Williams is a writer, editor and educator from Baton Rouge obsessed with bad women, theology and power/lessness. Her work appears or is forthcoming in The Florida Review, Cream City Review, Adroit Journal, Beloit Poetry Journal, Split Lip and elsewhere.

Pritha Bhattacharyya is a Bengali-American writer. She is a fiction PhD candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Houston. She received her MFA from Boston University. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Ecotone, Ninth Letter, Nashville Review, and elsewhere.

Addie Eliades was a 2019 Fulbright scholar in Brazil, teaching English and leading a poetry workshop. A University of Virginia (UVA) graduate, Addie received UVA’s 2017 Rachel St. Paul Poetry Prize. She is an MFA student in poetry with an Inprint C. Glenn Cambor Fellowship at the University of Houston.

Aris Kian is a Houston enthusiast and a student of abolition. Her poems are published with The West Review, Rumpus, Write About Now and elsewhere. She is a Pushcart nominee and a 2020 Best of the Net Finalist. She ranks #10 in the 2020 Women of the World Poetry Slam and pursues her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Houston.

Gabriella Adriana Iacono is a poet and artist from Staten Island, the Borough of Parks, in New York City. She is a C. Glenn Cambor Inprint Fellow and was a recipient of the 2016 Mayapple Fellowship. Iacono worked in public education for seven years before moving to Houston and currently teaches creative writing for Writers in the Schools. She recently coordinated the 2021 Boldface Conference for Emerging Writers and served as Graduate Advisor to the University of Houston's undergraduate literary magazine, Glass Mountain. Iacono has served as a Poetry Editor for NYSAI Magazine and now serves as the Assistant Nonfiction Editor for Gulf Coast Magazine. Her work has appeared in Defunkt Magazine, SIZL, NYSAI Magazine, Portmanteau LDN, and elsewhere. Iacono is a third year MFA candidate at the University of Houston and is working on her first collection of poetry.

fey i. kamba (she/they) is a poet, linguist, and activist originally from london, uk. she gained her undergraduate degree in linguistics and cognitive science from princeton university, where she studied the links between thought, language, and meaning. currently an mfa candidate in the creative writing program at the university of houston, she is a recipient of the inprint c. glenn cambor fellowship and serves as an assistant poetry editor at gulf coast: a journal of literature and fine arts.

Zarlasht Niaz is a writer and organizer from Minneapolis, Minnesota whose work focuses on immigration and women's rights.