PATCHWORK: Amber Dawn, Carmen Maria Machado, Alice Sola Kim
Patchwork, a feminist literary salon, brings together writers across genres and stages in their careers to create a colorful tapestry of radical, experimental, and intersectional feminist conversation and community. Join us monthly for readings, lively discussion, drink specials, books for sale, and an opportunity to mingle and connect with fellow feminist writers and readers! Our July lineup features Amber Dawn, Carmen Maria Machado, and Alice Sola Kim.
Patchwork is produced by the Feminist Press, the world’s longest-running feminist publisher. Founded in 1970 to diversify the literary canon, FP is proud to publish books that ignite movements and social transformation, and works to create a world where everyone recognizes themselves in a book. With Patchwork, Feminist Press aims to bring together a wide variety of writers to create an energetic, exciting space for feminist and independent literary community in New York.
Books will be available for purchase courtesy of Hive Mind Books, with a portion of proceeds benefitting the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund.
AMBER DAWN is a writer and educator living on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations (Vancouver, Canada). Her debut novel Sub Rosa (2010) won the Lambda Literary Award for Debut Lesbian Fiction and the Writers’ Trust of Canada Dayne Ogilvie Prize. Her memoir How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler’s Memoir (2013) won the Vancouver Book Award. Her sophomore novel Sodom Road Exit (2018) was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction and a Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. Her collection of long poems My Art Is Killing Me and Other Poems (2020) was a finalist for the Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes. Her third poetry collection, "Buzzkill Clamshell" is forthcoming in Spring 2025.
CARMEN MARIA MACHADO is the author of the bestselling memoir In the Dream House, the graphic novel The Low, Low Woods, and the award-winning short story collection Her Body and Other Parties. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction, the Brooklyn Public Library Literature Prize, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize. In 2018, the New York Times listed Her Body and Other Parties as a member of "The New Vanguard," one of "15 remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st century."
Her essays, fiction, poetry, and criticism have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Granta, Vogue, This American Life, Harper’s Bazaar, Tin House, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, The Believer, Guernica, Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the Guggenheim Foundation, The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. She is the former Abrams Artist-in-Residence at the University of Pennsylvania.
ALICE SOLA KIM's writing has appeared in The Cut, McSweeney's, Lightspeed Magazine, The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, and other publications. She is a 2016 Whiting Award winner and the recipient of grants from MacDowell and the Elizabeth George Foundation.
Patchwork is hosted by NADINE SANTORO. Nadine Santoro is a multi-disciplinary artist, writer, and facilitator. She works as the Publicity & Events Coordinator at the Feminist Press, leads retreats, and teaches on creative attention. Nadine is the co-host of the podcast Thinking Straight, a lesbian anthropological dig into the world of heterosexual romance novels, and writes The Doorway, a biweekly snail-mail newsletter. She lives in Brooklyn with her girlfriend and their two senior dogs, Knives and Young Neil.