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Joe Pan Alumni Fiction Reading & Conversation

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The UNC Greensboro Creative Writing Program and The Greensboro Review will host a reading & conversation with UNCG Creative Writing alum Joe Pan on Friday, August 22nd, at 6 PM at Scuppernong Books, 304. South Elm Street. The event will celebrate the release of Pan's debut novel, FLORIDA PALMS. It is free and open to the public and will be followed by a book signing.

Joe Pan’s debut novel, Florida Palms, is forthcoming from Simon & Schuster in July 2025 and has been optioned by HBO. Author of five poetry collections, Pan’s work has appeared in such publications as the Boston Review, Hyperallergic, the New York Times, the Philadelphia Review of Books, and Poets & Writers, and has been profiled in the New York Post, Publishers Weekly, the Rumpus, and the Wall Street Journal. Joe is the founding publisher and editor-in-chief of Brooklyn Arts Press, a small press honored with a National Book Award in Poetry, and is publisher of Augury Books, honored with a Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry. With his wife he co-founded Brooklyn Artists Helping (BAH), which serves unhoused populations with sleeping bags, backpacks, and goods. He lives in Hollywood, California.



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