Overhear Poetry Reading

Julia Pike is a writer and educator from Brooklyn, New York. Her work has been supported by the Corporation of Yaddo, the St. Botolph Club Foundation, and the St. Albans School Writer-in-Residence program. She holds an MFA in Fiction from Boston University, and her writing has been published in Joyland, The Common, The Rumpus, Rookie Magazine, and The Molotov Cocktail. Her debut novel, Don't You Miss It, is forthcoming from Riverhead Books in April.

Yuma Carpenter-New is a queer poet from Beloit, Wisconsin, currently based in Binghamton, NY, where they are a PhD student in English (Creative Writing). Their work is forthcoming in The Iowa Review. They earned an MFA from Brooklyn College, where they were the Truman Capote Scholar, and a BA from Bard College, where they received the Academy of American Poets Prize. Yuma has been a resident at Hawthornden Foundation Brooklyn and a finalist for The Poetry Project's Lisa…