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Anya Johanna DeNiro lives in St. Paul. Her fiction has appeared in Catapult, One Story, Minnesota Monthly, and elsewhere. She’s currently at work on a young adult novel entitled My Heart Is an Unslain Dragon. Her novella City of a Thousand Feelings is forthcoming from Aqueduct Press in the winter of 2019.
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Upcoming Events:
Laura will be reading at the Startled By JOY 2019 poetry reading and open mic on October 6th, 2019. The event takes place from 5:30 to 7:30 PM at the Troubadour Wine Bar, 2827 Hennepin Avenue in Minneapolis.
Michael is teaching a class on barrel-aged beer on November 19th at Zymurgy Brewing on Main Street in Menomonie, Wisconsin
Anya’s Readings:
- Take Pills and Wait for Hips – 10:40
- City of a Thousand Feelings – 36:56
- Faint Voices Increasingly Desperate – 47:14
Michael’s Beer Pairings:
- J.W. Lee’s Harvest Ale 2002 Vintage, J.W. Lee’s & Company, UK (paired to Take Pills and Wait for Hips) – 15:26
- Wittekerke, De Brabandere, Belgium (paired to City of a Thousand Feelings) – 34:07
- Firebrick, August Schell Brewing Company, MN (paired to Faint Voices Increasingly Desperate) – 45:07
Interview Highlights:
- What is an Interactive Fiction game? – 25:44
- Imagery, Allegory, Writer’s Intention – 27:51
- How does the Glass-Bottom Boat Image in Take Pills and Wait for Hips relate to theme of transition as a transgender woman? – 31:09
- What goes into getting an MFA? – 41:15
- Writing in second person – 43:11
- Writing in third person present tense – 51:32
- Writing transgender protagonists – 54:45
COMING NEXT MONTH: Poet Donna Isaac.
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