OTIS COLLEGE GRADUATE WRITING STUDENTS read from their work

Please join us for a reading with the graduate writing students of Otis College of Art and Design. The readers will include:

N.J. Arps has a lifelong fascination with art, science, and fairytales, and has always wondered whether wishing wells grant wishes first-come-first serve, or if they operate using a more need-based fulfillment system.

Emily Ansara Baines is the author of The Unofficial Downton Abbey Cookbook and The Unofficial Hunger Games Cookbook. Her work has appeared on Jezebel,The Huffington Post, The Independent, The Bold Italic, XOJane, Narrative, andHello Giggles, where she is a contributing writer. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and an invisible cat named Rufus. Her favorite word is murmur.

Raised in Dallas, Texas and Ontario, California, Garcia Bassier's writing shifts between poetry and prose. Her work has appeared in Torrid Literature Journal and The Corvus Review. Her current project is a book of prose poetry about growing up in the Inland Empire.

Niko Nelson is a poet living in Los Angeles and plans on leaving. She enjoys traveling at high velocities and making books, though she requests you ask in person if she has actually done so. Her sixth-month trajectory includes living in a van and reading poems to strangers on streets. Niko used to be a journalist, and will probably be one again for the money.