Join us for an evening of poetry with Shilo Niziolek, Courtney Leblanc and Sara Quinn Rivara!

Shilo Niziolek is the author of the short story collection Pigeon House, the memoir Fever, two poetry collection, atrophy and Little Deaths. She is a creative writing workshop facilitator at Literary Arts, an English and Writing instructor at Clackamas Community College, and the Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of the literary magazine, Scavengers, through Querencia Press.

Courtney LeBlanc is author of the full length collections Her Whole Bright Life, winner of the Jack McCarthy Book Prize (Write Bloody, 2023),  Exquisite Bloody, Beating Heart (Riot in Your Throat, 2021), and Beautiful & Full of Monsters (VA Press, 2020). Her next collection, Her Dark Everything is forthcoming in April 2025 from Riot in Your Throat. She is the Arlington Poet Laureate, a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts fellow (2022), and the  founder and editor-in-chief of Riot in Your Throat, an independent poetry press.

Sara Quinn Rivara is the author of three collections of poetry: Little Beast (Riot in Your Throat Press, 2023) finalist for the 2024 Oregon Book Awards in Poetry, Animal Bride (Tinderbox Editions, 2019) and Lake Effect (Aldrich Press, 2013). Her work is rooted in place and focuses on gender, myth, fairytale, domestic violence, motherhood, and the ways a female-identified person moves through an often hostile world.