Anne Gisleson reads September 8th!

Kicking off the 2009 Fall season, Anne Gisleson will read Tuesday, September 8th at the Columns Hotel. Soon to appear in the upcoming Best American Non-Required Reading, Anne exists as a beloved New Orleans writer and teaches creative writing at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. Anne’s fiction, poetry and non-fiction has been widely published in literary magazines such as The New Orleans Review, The Mississippi Review, Muse Media, The Great American Poetry Show, Gambit Weekly and Constance. She received her M.F.A. from Louisiana State University and has participated in residencies at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts and the New York Institute for Writers. She received the Louisiana Division of the Arts grants and a Surdna Arts Teacher’s fellowship. Anne is even the co-founder and co-editor of the New Orleans literary and arts collective Press Street.

Be sure to get to the Columns early for Happy Hour, which ends at 7pm, and grab a seat. Following Anne’s reading will be student readers Laura Ruffino (UNO) and Todd Grubs (Loyola).