Poetry Reading: Christina Olson with Lisa M. Hase-Jackson
Fri, Oct 11
|Charleston Library Society
Time & Location
Oct 11, 2019, 7:00 PM
Charleston Library Society, 164 King St, Charleston, SC 29401, USA
Guests
About the event
Christina Olson is the author of the full-length poetry collections Terminal Human Velocity and Before I Came Home Naked, as well as the chapbooks Weird Science and Rook and The M.E.: A Law and Order-Inspired Narrative. Her most recent chapbook, The Last Mastodon, was a winner of the Rattle 2019 Chapbook Contest and will be published this December. Other poetry and creative nonfiction have appeared in magazines including The Atlantic, The Normal School, Quarterly West, Passages North, Third Coast, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Best Creative Nonfiction, Volume Three. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at Georgia Southern University.
Lisa M. Hase-Jackson’s debut collection of poetry, Flint and Fire, was selected by Jericho Brown for the 2019 Hilary Tham Capital Collection Series, an imprint of The Word Works in Washington DC. She holds an MFA in poetry from Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and a MA in English from Kansas State University. A full-time writer and adjunct instructor at the College of Charleston, Lisa is Editor in Chief of South 85 and founding editor of Zingara Poetry Review.