Mark Haber Reading

Mark Haber was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Florida. His debut novel, Reinhardt’s Garden (2019, Coffee House Press), was longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award. His second novel, Saint Sebastian’s Abyss (2022, Coffee House Press), was named a best book of 2022 by the New York Public Library and Literary Hub. Mark's fiction has appeared in Guernica, Southwest Review, and Air/Light, among others. Mark lives in Minneapolis.

Vincent James Perrone is the author of the poetry collection , a contributor to the anthology , the winner of the Phyllis Grant Zellmer Prize for Fiction, and a finalist for the Tusculum Review Fiction Chapbook Prize. His recent and forthcoming work can be found in Wigleaf, Split Lip Magazine, Pithead Chapel, and The West Trade Review. Currently, Vincent is an MFA candidate at the University of Virginia, where he won the 2025 Balch Short Story Prize and serves as the fiction editor for . Originally from Detroit, Vincent is a proud member-owner of the cooperatively owned and operated bookstore, Book Suey, where he has led writing workshops, programmed reading events, and sold many copies of To The Lighthouse.

Lynn Crawford is a fiction writer and art critic who is a founding board member of MOCAD and a Kresge Literary Arts Fellow. She is the author of several books including Solo, Simply Separate People, Fortification Resort, Shankus & Kitto: a saga nd Paula Regossy.

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