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A Perseids meteor shower reading for outer space featuring Wendy Chin-Tanner, Timothy Donnelly & Allison Deanna Carter, hosted by Emma Ginader

Wendy Chin-Tanner is the author of the poetry collections "Turn" (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2014), which was a finalist for the Oregon Book Awards, and "Anyone Will Tell You" (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2019). She is a poetry editor at The Nervous Breakdown and executive director at A Wave Blue World, an independent publishing company for graphic novels. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming at venues including the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series, The Rumpus, and The Mays Anthology of Oxford and Cambridge. A trained sociologist specializing in race, identity, discourse analysis, and cultural studies, Wendy was born and raised in NYC and educated at Cambridge University, UK. She is the mother of two daughters and the proud daughter of immigrants.

Timothy Donnelly is the author of The Problem of the Many (Wave Books, 2019), The Cloud Corporation (Wave Books, 2010), which won the 2012 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit (Grove, 2003). His chapbook Hymn to Life was recently published by Factory Hollow Press and with John Ashbery and Geoffrey G. O’Brien he is the co-author of Three Poets published by Minus A Press in 2012. He is a recipient of The Paris Review’s Bernard F. Conners Prize and the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award as well as fellowships from the New York State Writers Institute and the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He is Director of Poetry in the Writing Program at Columbia University’s School of the Arts and lives in Brooklyn with his family.