Yellow Arrow Writers In Residence Reading

Join us for an evening in celebration of the 4 Writers in Residence with Baltimore-based Yellow Arrow Press: Ashley Elizabeth, Kavitha Rath, Parisa Saranj, and Steph Sundermann-Zinger! Bird in Hand loves partnering with Yellow Arrow to offer writing space to the writers in residence, and we can’t wait to hear what they’ve been up to with this special reading. We hope you’ll join us.

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Ashley Elizabeth (she/her) is a Baltimore-based poet and winner of the 2024 Garden Party Collective Chapbook Contest. She is a Pushcart-nominated writer and educator whose work has appeared in SWWIM, Voicemail Poems, Rigorous, Lucky Jefferson, and Sage Cigarettes, among others. She is the author of four chapbooks, including red line and CHARM(ed). Her debut full-length, A Family Thing, is out now from ELJ Editions. Find her on IG and Twitter @ae_thepoet or her website aetheblkpoet.com.

Kavitha Rath is a writer based in Baltimore, MD whose publications have appeared in Strange Horizons, The Lorelei Signal, Mythic Delirium, Papercuts Magazine, and more. She interweaves myth, magic, and mysticism into her poetry and short stories. Kavitha has a BA in International Studies and Journalism from Emory University and an MPH/MBA from Johns Hopkins University. She has lived in numerous cities, including Atlanta, Chennai, and London. Follow Kavitha on Instagram @kavithanalini, Tumblr @ishtarverse, and at kavitharath.wordpress.com.

Parisa Saranj (she/her) is an Iranian-American writer and Persian translator. Her writings on contemporary Iranian politics and Persian (Farsi) translations have been published in several publications, including Ms. Magazine, True, Defunct Magazine, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Faultline, Asymptote, Two Lines, and Your Impossible Voice. She has also translated two books, Empty and Me (Lee & Low, 2023) by Azam Mahdavi and Women, Life, Freedom: Our Fight for Human Rights and Equality in Iran (Cornell University Press, 2023) by Nasrin Sotoudeh and two documentaries, Nasrin (2020) and Sansur (2023), on women’s rights in Iran. She is working on a memoir of growing up in Esfahan, Iran, in the 1990s.

Steph Sundermann-Zinger (they/she) is a queer poet living and writing in the Baltimore area. Their work explores themes of identity, relationship, and connection with the natural world, and has appeared in Blue Unicorn, Little Patuxent Review, Lines + Stars, Literary Mama, Every Day Fiction, Litbreak, and other journals. Her poem, “In Praise of Solitude,” was selected as the winner of the 2023 Ellen Conroy Kennedy Poetry Prize. They hold an MFA from the University of Baltimore.