Lost City Books Summer Salon

Lost City Books + The Line DC welcome you to attend our Summer Salon, part of a quarterly reading series where we invite talented authors doing exciting work in all different genres to join us and read aloud a piece of their choosing. We'll eat, drink, talk, and listen, meet fellow lovers of literature, discover new authors, and mark the changing of the seasons together.

Bask in summer with us while celebrating D.C.'s flourishing literary community!

about the authors

Originally from Tampa, Fl, Rosa Castellano is a poet and teacher living in Richmond, VA. A finalist for Cave Canem’s Starshine and Clay Fellowship, and co-founder of the RVA Poetry Fest, her poems can be found or are forthcoming from RHINO Poetry, Diode, Passages North, Nimrod, The Ninth Letter, and Poetry Northwest among others. She has an MFA from VCU and her debut poetry collection, All Is the Telling, is available through Diode Editions.

Myriam J. A. Chancy is the author of the novel Village Weavers, published by Tin House. She is also the author of the novel What Storm, What Thunder, awarded an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation and named a best book of the year by NPR, Kirkus, Chicago Public Library, New York Public Library, the Boston Globe, and the Globe and Mail. Her past novels include The Loneliness of Angels, winner of the Guyana Prize for Literature Caribbean Award; The Scorpion’s Claw; and Spirit of Haiti, short-listed for the Commonwealth Prize. She is a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and HBA Chair in the Humanities at Scripps College in California.

Ursula Villarreal-Moura is the author of the flash fiction collection Math for the Self-Crippling and the novel Like Happiness, named a Best Book of 2024 by NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, ELLE, and Them. Her writing has appeared in various magazines including Lit Hub, Tin House, Catapult, Electric Literature, Prairie Schooner, The Rumpus, among others, and been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, Best of the Net, and longlisted for Best American Short Stories.

Rax King is the James Beard award-nominated author of the essay collections Tacky and Sloppy and co-host of the podcast Low Culture Boil. Her writing can be found in Glamour, Food & Wine, Bon Appetit, and elsewhere. She is a D.C. native who currently lives in Brooklyn with her toothless Pekingese.

The event will be held in the Carina room of The Line hotel. Seating will be first come first served. Doors open at 7pm.

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