The Creative Writing Program and English Department at Mesa Community College (MCC) are proud to welcome award-winning writers Erika Meitner and Andrea Avery for a reading on Wednesday, November 4th, 1-2:15PM.
The reading will take place at MCC in the BP-5 lecture room. It will also be digitally accessible here: https://mesacc-edu.zoom.us/s/83030381173?pwd=bYjBlmqXpG5KrD2t8VCzDd8xv4GTIS.1
The event is free and open to the public. Please direct any questions to Todd Fredson: [email protected].
Erika Meitner is the author of seven books of poems, including Holy Moly Carry Me (BOA Editions, 2018), which was the winner of the 2018 National Jewish Book Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Useful Junk (BOA Editions, 2022). She is currently a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her newest book, Assembled Audience, is just out from Milkweed Editions.
Andrea Avery is the author of Sonata: A Memoir of Pain and the Piano (Pegasus Books) and Visiting Composer: A Novella (Miami University Press), which was the winner of the 2025 Miami University Press Novella Award. Her short work has appeared in Barrelhouse, CRAFT Literary, Ploughshares, The Oxford American, Real Simple, and The Washington Post, among other places.