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Roar Reading Series

  • Barnes & Noble UConn 1 Royce Circle Storrs, CT 06268 (map)

Elephant Rocks Books invites everyone to join them on the first Monday of every month at 7:00PM at the Barnes & Noble UConn in Downtown Storrs. Hang out, listen to some riveting stories, and meet us for a drink at Geno's Grill afterwards.

MARCH’S GUESTS:

Sonya Huber ​is the author of five books, including Opa Nobody, Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir, and the essay collection on chronic pain, Pain Woman Takes Your Keys and Other Essays from a Nervous System. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Brevity, Creative Nonfiction, and other outlets. She teaches at Fairfield University and in the Fairfield low-residency MFA program.

Claudia McGee has dealt in and with words for decades as a software technical writer, information architect, newspaper columnist, freelance editor, eBook producer, poet, essayist, and fiction writer. Claudia's chapbook of poems, Paperlight, was published by Finishing Line Press. While her technical writing has been translated into six languages and distributed across Europe, South America, and Japan, now that she is retired, she trying to make sure her science fiction, memoir, and poems read properly in American English.

Sean Frederick Forbes is an Assistant Professor-in-Residence of English and the Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Connecticut. In 2009, he received a Woodrow Wilson Mellon Mays University Fellows Travel and Research Grant for travel to Providencia, Colombia. Providencia, his first book of poetry, was published in 2013. He serves as the poetry editor for New Square, the official publication of The Sancho Panza Literary Society for which he is a founding member. In 2017, he received first place in the Nutmeg Poetry Contest from the Connecticut Poetry Society.

Sarah P. Strong is the author of two novels, The Fainting Room and Burning the Sea and two poetry collections, Tour of the Breath Gallery, and the forthcoming The Mouth of Earth. Sarah’s work has appeared in The Nation, The Southern Review, River Styx, The Sun, and many other journals, and both their fiction and poetry have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. They teach creative writing at the University of Hartford and CCSU.

PARKING: Parking is available in the Downtown Storrs Parking Garage, which is free for your first 2 hours, then just $1/hour thereafter. The garage is adjacent to 1 Royce Circle, where Barnes & Noble is located, and to the Nash-Zimmer Transportation Center. The main entrance of the Nash-Zimmer is a 2-minute walk to both Barnes & Noble and Geno’s Grill, which is directly across the street from the bookstore.

Later Event: March 4
MMSA Fundraiser at Mooyah