Soloway is pleased to host Ugly Duckling Presse (UDP) for a reading with Edwin Alanís-García, Tess Gunty, and Mariana Roa Oliva in celebration of the launch of Alanís-García's UDP chapbook, Galería.

About the book, Johannes Göransson says, "Edwin Alanís-García’s poems are ekphrastic, referential and expatriative – they are poems that wear their mediation on their sleeves – but they also manage to feel urgent and beautiful." More on the book here.

Edwin Alanís-García is the author of the chapbook Galería (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2019). His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Acentos Review, The Kenyon Review, Periphery, and Tupelo Quarterly. He received an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University and is currently a graduate student in Philosophy of Religion at Harvard Divinity School.

Tess Gunty writes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from NYU, where she was a Lillian Vernon Fellow. She has a BA in English from the University of Notre Dame, where she won the Ernest Sandeen Award for Most Outstanding Poetry Collection. Her short story received an American Voice Award and was subsequently read on NPR. Her fiction has appeared in The Iowa Review, which nominated it for a PEN/Robert J. Dau Award. Since finishing her MFA in 2017, she worked as a research and writing assistant to Jonathan Safran Foer on his forthcoming book of nonfiction. She is working on her first novel.

Mariana Roa Oliva creates fiction, performance, and installation works. Her short stories have been published in the anthologies Lados B: Narrativa de Alto Riesgo, Bidibidi bombom: diez y quince writers en torno a Selena, and Under the Volcano: the Best Writing of our First 15 Years. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Literary Arts at Brown University, where she was recently awarded the Kim Ann Arstark Memorial Award.