We're back! Following our pandemic-induced hiatus (we swear it was never about you!), we're happy to announce the Poison Pen relaunch reading featuring Tomás Q. Morín, Miah Arnold, and Nick Almeida! Same time (8:30 pm), same place (Poison Girl patio). We hope to see many of our old friends and look forward to meeting new ones.

Tomás Q. Morín is the author of the poetry collection Machete and the forthcoming memoir Let Me Count the Ways. He is co-editor, with Mari L’Esperance, of the anthology Coming Close: Forty Essays on Philip Levine and translator of The Heights of Macchu Picchu by Pablo Neruda. He teaches at Rice University.

Miah Arnold wrote the novel Sweet Land of Bigamy, the 2014 Best American Essay selection “You Owe Me,” and she is finishing up a book of poetry. She curated the quotes for Figurative Poetics, the banners with stories hanging throughout downtown Houston for CORE Design Studio and the Houston Downtown Management District. She is the founder and principal of Grackle and Grackle Writing Workshops, where she makes it possible for anybody who wants to take a writing class to take one with the best teaching writers from Houston and around the country.

Nick Almeida’s stories and essays have appeared in Pleiades, The Southeast Review, Mid-American Review, American Literary Review, Waxwing, and elsewhere. He is a PhD candidate at the University of Houston and holds an MFA from The Michener Center for Writers where he edited Bat City Review. His chapbook, Masterplans, was selected by judge Steve Almond as grand prize winner of The Masters Review’s inaugural Chapbook Contest in Fiction and will be available soon.