The Enhancers
Thursday, March 2
7pm
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Anne K. Yoder is the author of the novel The Enhancers. Her fiction, essays, and criticism have appeared in Fence, BOMB, Music & Literature, NY Tyrant,and MAKE, and has been recognized in Best American Nonrequired Reading. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks and is a member of the Chicago-based publishing and arts collective, Meekling Press. She writes, lives, and occasionally dispenses pharmaceuticals in Chicago.
Kate Durbin is a Los Angeles-based writer and artist. Her books include Hoarders (Wave), E! Entertainment, The Ravenous Audience, and ABRA, an iOS app that won the 2017 international Turn On Literature Prize. Durbin was the Arts Queensland Poet-in-Residence in Brisbane, Australia in 2015 and again in 2020. Her projects have been featured in the New York Times, Art in America, Artforum, The Believer, NPR, and elsewhere. She has shown her artwork internationally at The PULSE Art Fair in Miami, MOCA Los Angeles, the SPRING/BREAK Art Show in Los Angeles, peer to space in Berlin, and more.
Katya Apekina is a novelist, screenwriter and translator. Her novel, The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish (Two Dollar Radio), was named a Best Book of 2018 (Kirkus, Buzzfeed), and was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and shortlisted for Stanford Libraries’ 2020 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. It’s been translated into Spanish, Catalan, French, German and Italian. Katya translated poetry and prose from Russian for Night Wraps the Sky: Writings by and about Mayakovsky (FSG, 2008), short-listed for the Best Translated Book Award. Born in Moscow, she currently lives in Los Angeles. Her new novel, Mother Doll, is coming out Spring 2024 from Abrams/Overlook.