Joshua Gottlieb-MillerRyan O'MalleyAustin TremblayJason DanielsKaryna McGlynnKevin TynanJameelah LangAja GabelNicole WalkerColin GarretsonZachary MartinCaitlin PlunkettChuck CarliseRyler DustinQuincy FlowersJane KohMeggie MonahanDane WisherLaura-Eve EngelEric KocherKent Shaw Through a collaboration with Houston’s Brazos Bookstore, Gulf Coast is proud to present ten readers this fall and winter from the University of Houston’s nationally-acclaimed graduate program in creative writing. All readings are free and open to the public and begin at 7 p.m. at Brazos Bookstore, 2421 Bissonnet, Houston, TX 77005. September 3, 2010 Before attending the University of Houston, Joshua Gottlieb-Miller was awarded fellowships to the Vermont Studio Center, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets. You can find his work in the most recent issues of Many Mountains Moving and Mare Nostrum, as well as nowhere. Joshua graduated from St. Mary's College of Maryland in 2008, with a BA in English and Philosophy. More recently he adopted a kitten, Elsie, who he is teaching to do tricks for food, and, more importantly, acclaim. Ryan O'Malley is 25 years old and from Chicago, the only place he’s called home. He is a first year MFA student at University of Houston and is looking forward to nonexistent winters and getting away from The Cubs. Ryan enjoys getting his hands dirty, his tea black, baseball of all kinds, and narrative driven poetry. He lists Frost and Philip Levine as his biggest influences and tries to examine work of all kinds in his poetry. Austin Tremblay was born and raised on the southeastern coast of North Carolina. His work has been featured, or is forthcoming, in Gulf Coast, New South, Bateau, Cream City Review, and other journals. Austin loves visiting baseball fields and playing music. He'd love to hear from you: tblay@mac.com. October 8, 2010 Jason Daniels is a second year MFA candidate in fiction at UH and an assistant editor for Gulf Coast. He can reliably be found reading, writing, playing videogames or eating delicious foods. Karyna McGlynn is the author of I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl, winner of the 2008 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry from Sarabande Books. She’s released several chapbooks including the collaboration Small Shrines (Cinematheque Press, 2010). Her poems appear in Fence, Octopus, Denver Quarterly, Columbia Poetry Review, Copper Nickel and Salt Hill. Karyna is currently pursuing her PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Houston. She edits the journal linelinelineline with Adam Theriault. Kevin Tynan is a first-year MFA candidate in fiction at the University of Houston. He grew up in rural New England and attended Union College and the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, where he earned his BA in English. Before moving to Houston, Kevin briefly worked in publishing at Tupelo Press. November 12, 2010 Jameelah Lang spent 91.8% of her life in Kansas, and her mother was very happy about this. She received her MFA in 2010 from the University of Kansas, where she read for Cottonwood Literary Magazine and co-founded Bathtub Kansas Writers' Collective. In 2009-2010, Jameelah also served as the Writer-in-Residence for HUB-BUB, a grassroots arts organization in Spartanburg, South Carolina. There, she interned for Hub City Press and the Hub City Writers Project. Aja Gabel holds an MFA in Fiction from the University of Virginia and a BA from Wesleyan University. She was the fiction editor at Meridian and served on the editorial board of the Virginia Quarterly Review. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in the New England Review, the New Ohio Review, Slush Pile, the Southeast Review, and the South Carolina Review. Nicole Walker grew up in Brownsville, Texas. She is a first year MFA poetry candidate at UH. She loves cats, ducks, and pumpkin pie. January 21, 2011 Born in Sydney, Colin Garretson grew up on the seacoast of New Hampshire. He graduated with a BA in History and English from The University of Pennsylvania in 2000. After teaching ESL in Germany for two and a half years, he moved to the Bay Area, where he earned master's degrees from Stanford in History and Humanities. He is currently an MFA student in fiction writing at the University of Houston. Zachary Martin is a PhD candidate at the University of Houston and a graduate of the University of Chicago and the Creative Writing Program at Florida State University. He is an assistant fiction editor for Narrative and teaches online creative writing classes for the Gotham Writers’ Workshop. His fiction, non-fiction, and humor have appeared in such outlets as Louisville Review, Fourth Genre, Southeast Review, Washington Square, and Lumina, and online at McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and The Bygone Bureau. Caitlin Plunkett is in her second year at the University of Houston’s MFA Program. She has been recently published on “Poets for Living Waters,” a response to the BP Gulf Coast oil disaster. Caitlin also writes for MyDailyDeals, creating ads for businesses like Bubbles Car Wash and Top Drawer Lingerie. She learned about poetry in Virginia and owes a lot to that one poetry class at Virginia Tech. February 11, 2011 Chuck Carlise was born in Canton, Ohio, on the first Flag Day of the Jimmy Carter Era. His poems and essays appear in Southern Review, Pleiades, DIAGRAM, Quarterly West, Beloit Poetry Journal, HaydenÕs Ferry, Southeast Review, and others. He came to UH via Wittenberg University and UC-Davis (among many other places), and is currently is a 4th year PhD candidate in Poetry, and a former Non-Fiction Editor of Gulf Coast. Ryler Dustin has performed on the final stages of the National and Individual World Poetry Slams and has toured across the U.S. performing his work and teaching writing workshops. After helping to found the Basement Poetry Series in his hometown, he served as Associate Editor to Jeopardy Magazine and moved to Houston, where he's spent the last couple of years learning from his friends. His Pushcart-Prize-nominated work appears in the collection Heavy Lead Birdsong, released from WriteBloody. Quincy Flowers received a MA degree in American Literature from NYU, where he was a New York Times Fellow and recipient of the Ludwig Vogelstein Award for fiction. He is a fourth year PhD student in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Houston and currently at work on his first novel. March 4, 2011 Jane Koh is currently getting her MFA at the University of Houston and also works with Writers in the Schools. Prior to moving to Houston, she was a person with a purpose, working for non-profits in New York and San Francisco. She occasionally performs through the NY-based group Agent 409 and is currently hard at work writing stories that are perhaps more heart than sense. Meggie Monahan is a second-year MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Houston and a Nonfiction Assistant Editor for Gulf Coast. She received her bachelor's degree in English Literature from The Catholic University of America and spent two years traveling, freelance editing, and working in the Philadelphia Deaf community before coming to Houston. She is very thankful to be part of the creative writing community in Houston. Dane Wisher grew up on the Jersey Shore and graduated from the University of Virginia. He currently attends the University of Houston MFA Program, where he is at work on a novel. His fiction and poetry are forthcoming in ACREAGE and Word Riot. His heart is still somewhere back in New York City. April 15, 2011 Laura Eve Engel’s work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Third Coast, Washington Square, Zone 3, Denver Quarterly, Caketrain and elsewhere. She finger-picks a mean guitar. Originally from Charlottesville, Virginia, she returns to her hometown in the summer, where she works as the Head Counselor at the UVa Young Writers Workshop. Eric Kocher is a third year MFA student at the University of Houston. His work has appeared (or is forthcoming) in Boston Review, Diagram, H_ngm_n, RATTLE, Third Coast, and Washington Square Review. Kent Shaw’s first book Calenture was published by University of Tampa Press in 2008. His work has appeared in Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, AGNI, The Journal and elsewhere. He is in his final year of his PhD at the University of Houston and works as a writer for Writers in the Schools.