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Join us to hear poets Sebastian Merrill & Jen Funk read from their debut poetry collections!

Sebastian Merrill’s debut collection GHOST :: SEEDS was selected by Kimiko Hahn as the winner of the 2022 X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize from Texas Review Press. The winner of the 2022 Levis Prize for Poetry from Friends of Writers, Sebastian was selected as a member of the 2023 Get the Word Out inaugural poetry cohort for debut writers from Poets & Writers. A staff-scholar for the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in 2022 and 2023 and the Summer 2023 Warren Wilson MFA Alumni Residency Fellow, Sebastian has also received support from Tin House Workshop and the Juniper Summer Writing Institute. The recipient of the Rodney Jack Scholarship from Friends of Writers, he holds an MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College and a BA from Wellesley College.

Jennifer Funk is a native Californian trying to prove her mettle in New England. A graduate of Bennington College and of Warren Wilson's MFA Program for Writers, she has received support from the Bread Loaf's Writers' Conference as well as The Frost Place. Her poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Four Way Review, The Cimarron Review, Nashville Review, The Boiler, and elsewhere. Her debut collection of poetry, Fantasy of Loving the Fantasy, was published by Bull City Press in spring 2023 (cue squeal of delighted disbelief).

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