# Event Details - **Event Name**: Author Event! Aurora Mattia's "Unsex Me Here" - **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 31 May, 2025 at 05:00 pm – Mon, 30 Jun, 2025 at 06:00 pm - **Event Description**: Join us on Saturday, May 31st at 5pm as we host Aurora Mattia in conversation with JD Scott. They'll be discussing Aurora's "Unsex Me Here"About this EventJoin us on Saturday, May 31st at 5pm as we host Aurora Mattia in conversation with JD Scott. They will be discussing Aurora's new collection, Unsex Me Here. Signed copies of Aurora's book are available for purchase. About the book:"Mattia (The Fifth Wound) dazzles with this genre-spanning collection of stories about queer and trans characters navigating desire and love. Raphael, the protagonist of “Valentine’s Day,” submits to a series of hookups on Grindr while pining for the man he loves. In “Wild and Blue,” Peach and Sandy go on the run after stealing an experimental drug from a pharmaceutical company. As the drug strips Sandy of his memories, Peach, who is trans, worries her lover’s altered mind will dismantle his ability to see her as a woman. Mattia draws on Greek and Roman mythology with “Celebrity Skin,” about two trans women who become lovers during their quest to reach a cult that performs the mystical and gender-affirming Aphroditos ritual. In “Cradle Me, Lucifer,” the narrator details her bond with her pet python, Milky, who was given to her by an ex. As she chronicles her beautiful and heartbreaking relationship with the snake, her own life and those of the people around her come into focus. Ripe with poetic metaphor, Mattia’s narratives blend reality, magical realism, and autofiction to create a fever dream of yearning. Readers will be enthralled." - Publishers Weekly, Starred ReviewUnsex Me Here is a prayer book tied together by the strings of a corset. Glamorous ramblers, haunted by the sense of another world drawing near, wander in and out of its inexplicable twilight. From a West Texas town with a supernatural past to a stalactite cavern in the birthplace of Aphrodite, from hotel rooms to gardens to the far horizon of a thought, they seek the source of the disturbance in their minds. Heartbreak is not so far from rapture; holy babble is another kind of gossip. Every pilgrimage is as dense with symbolism as it is refined by desire.About the author:Aurora Mattia was born in Hong Kong and lives in Texas, where her mother was born. Her first book, The Fifth Wound, was published by Nightboat in 2023. Her sophomore collection, Unsex Me Here was published by Nightboat in March 2025. Her stories have appeared in various magazines, and also in exhibitions at the RISD Museum and the Renaissance Society, accompanying portraits by Elle Pérez. She’s sometimes working on a new novel called Seven Come Eleven, sometimes writing country songs, and mostly doing something else.About the moderator:JD Scott is the author of the story collection Moonflower, Nightshade, All the Hours of the Day (&NOW Books, 2020) and the poetry collection Mask for Mask (New Rivers Press, 2021). Their writing has appeared in Best Experimental Writing, Best New Poets, Denver Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Indiana Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and elsewhere. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/providence/author-event-aurora-mattias-unsex-me-here/100001357338779829 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, exhibitions, fine-arts - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 22.06, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Providence - **state**: RI - **country**: United States - **location**: Symposium Books - **lat**: 41.82277029999999 - **long**: -71.4125449 - **full address**: Symposium Books, 240 Westminster Street, Providence, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Author Event! 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