April bugs and allergies are bothering most of us right now, but our lovely readers won't bother anyone! Here are our readers for this Thursday's reading.

Jenny Li-Wang is a writer and medical assistant living in Houston, Texas. Her writing has been awarded the 2021 Inprint Marion Barthelme Prize in Creative Writing at Rice University, the 2020 Creative Nonfiction Prize from R2: The Rice Review, and the 2020 Max Apple Prize in Nonfiction Writing from Fondren Library.

Pritha Bhattacharyya is a fiction PhD candidate and Inprint C. Glenn Cambor Fellow at the University of Houston. She received her MFA from Boston University and has received support from the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers. She received the 2022 Inprint Donald Barthelme Prize in Fiction and was a finalist for Glimmer Train‘s 2019 Short Story Award for New Writers. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Ecotone, Ninth Letter, Bodega, and elsewhere.

Hayan Charara is a poet, children’s book author, essayist, and editor. His poetry books are the forthcoming These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit (Milkweed Editions 2022), Something Sinister (Carnegie Mellon Univ Press 2016), The Sadness of Others (Carnegie Mellon Univ Press 2006), and The Alchemist’s Diary (Hanging Loose Press 2001). His children’s book, The Three Lucys (2016), received the New Voices Award Honor, and he edited Inclined to Speak (2008), an anthology of contemporary Arab American poetry. With Fady Joudah, he is also a series editor of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. His honors include a literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lucille Joy Prize in Poetry from the University of Houston Creative Writing Program, the John Clare Prize, and the Arab American Book Award.