BookPeople Presents: An Evening with Sarah Kay and Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz

Sarah Kay is a writer, performer & educator from New York City. She is the author of four other books of poetry: B, No Matter the Wreckage, The Type & All Our Wild Wonder. Kay is the founder & co-director of Project VOICE, an organization that uses poetry to entertain, educate & empower students & educators in classrooms & communities worldwide.
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz is the author of seven previous collections of poetry—Dear Future Boyfriend; Hot Teen Slut; Working Class Represent; Oh, Terrible Youth; Everything is Everything; The Year of No Mistakes; and How To Love the Empty Air—which are all currently available on Write Bloody Publishing. She is also the author of two nonfiction books: Words In Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam (Soft Skull Press, 2008), which Billy Collins wrote “leaves no doubt that the slam poetry scene has achieved legitimacy and taken its rightful place on the map of contemporary literature; and Dr Mutter’s Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine (Gotham Books, 2014), which was on the New York Times best seller list for three months. Recent awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature, the ArtsEDGE Writer Residency at the University of Pennsylvania, the Amy Clampitt House Residency, and the Hedgebrook Residency. When not on tour, she splits her time between Austin, TX, and Philadelphia, PA.