Slipper Room Party!
WE ARE EXCITED TO PRESENT
A READING & ENTERTAINMENT EVENT
FEATURING AERIALIST ALISA MAE
THE READERS
Alexandrine Ogundimu
Madeline Cash
Michael Cisco
Sam Heaps
Chris Campanioni
Greg Mania
Jose Elvin Bueno
Kate Axelrod
Khaholi Bailey
Paolo Iacovelli
Lisa Marie Basile
APRIL 12
DOORS OPEN AT 6 PM
at THE SLIPPER ROOM NYC
BURLESQUE THEATER
167 Orchard St, New York, NY 10002
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ABOUT THE READERS
Alexandrine Ogundimu
Alexandrine Ogundimu is a Nigerian-American transgender writer from Indiana. She lives in the zeitgeist. This is her first novel.
Madeline Cash
Madeline Cash is a copywriter and contributor at Zora. She holds a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College. Her work has appeared in The Drift, The Baffler, Carve, Hobart, and The Literary Review, among other publications. She is the founder and co-editor of Forever Magazine—notable contributors including Eileen Myles, Sheila Heti, Nico Walker, and Dennis Cooper.
Michael Cisco
Michael Cisco is a writer and teacher currently living in New York City. He is known for his first novel, The Divinity Student, winner of the International Horror Guild Award for Best First Novel of 1999. His novel The Great Lover was nominated for the 2011 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel of the Year, and declared the Best Weird Novel of 2011 by the Weird Fiction Review. His experimental novel UNLANGUAGE was nominated for Best Horror Novel by Locus in 2019. He has published in anthologies edited by Jeff VanderMeer and Ellen Datlow, among others, and his work has been translated into German, French, Spanish, and Italian. His scholarly monograph, Weird Fiction: A Genre Study, will be published in early 2022 by Palgrave Macmillan. He teaches at CUNY Hostos in New York City.
Sam Heaps
Sam Heaps is a genderqueer writer, visual artist, and organizer. They are a 2022 Tin House Winter Workshop Scholar and a 2022 VCCA Fellow. You can find more of their work in Entropy, Taco Bell Quarterly, Communion Arts Journal, and many other publications. PROXIMITY is their first book. Heaps currently lives in Philadelphia, where they teach writing at the University of the Arts.
Chris Campanioni
Chris Campanioni was born in Manhattan in 1985 and grew up in a very nineties New Jersey. The son of exiles from Cuba and Poland, Chris is a writer, multimedia artist, and instructor. He is a recipient of the International Latino Book Award for his debut novel, Going Down (Aignos, 2013), the Pushcart Prize for a selection of his cross-genre collection Death of Art (C&R Press, 2016), and the Academy of American Poets College Prize.
Greg Mania
Greg Mania is a writer, comedian, and award-winning screenwriter based in New York City. His words have been published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, HuffPost, Oprah Daily, PAPER, among other international online and print platforms. His debut memoir, Born to Be Public, is out now from CLASH Books.
Jose Elvin Bueno
Jose Elvin Bueno is a first-generation immigrant to the USA from the Philippines. His previous works include the novel SUBVERSIVO, INC., awarded with the Grand Prize in the 63rd Palanca Awards for Literature, the Philippines’ most prestigious literary awards; and SINDICATO & CO., published by Penguin Random House. His novel GIGANTVM PENISIVM is forthcoming from CLASH Books.
Kate Axelrod
Kate Axelrod is the author of The Law of Loving Others, published in January 2015. Her writing has appeared in Slate, The Literary Review, Joyland, Wigleaf, Jellyfish Review, Atticus Review, New World Writing, and various other publications. In 2021, she published an article in Romper, sharing her story of changing family dynamics and parenthood.
Khaholi Bailey
Khaholi Bailey is a writer of fiction and memoir. Her work has been featured in FLAPPERHOUSE, Breadcrumbs and Midnight & Indigo, among countless masterpieces written on napkins. She lives in New York City.
Paolo Iacovelli
Paolo Iacovelli received his MFA in creative writing from Columbia University where he worked under Emma Cline, Richard Ford, Sam Lipsyte, and Binnie Kirshenbaum. His novel THE KING OF VIDEO POKER is forthcoming from CLASH Books.
Lisa Marie Basile
Lisa Marie Basile is the author of Light Magic for Dark Times. She is a poet-witch and founding creative director of Luna Luna magazine—a diary of darkness and light, literature, identity, and magic. She has also authored the poetry collections Andalucia and Apocryphal, as well as the forthcoming Nympholepsy. Her work encounters the intersection of ritual and wellness, chronic illness, magic, overcoming trauma, and poetry. She has written for the New York Times,Narratively, Grimoire magazine, Venefica, The Establishment, Refinery 29, Bust, Hello Giggles, and more. Her work has been nominated for the Best American Experimental Writing anthology and for several Pushcart Prizes, and has appeared in The Best Small Fictions, selected by Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Robert Olen Butler. Lisa Marie earned a master's degree in writing from The New School and studied literature and psychology at Pace University. She lives in New York City.