Tuesday, May 18th, 7:00pm
Mama’s CrowBar (f/k/a Awful Annie’s), 189 Congress St., Portland ME (map)
FREE
bar is cash only/beer only/21+
FEATURING THE DYNAMIC, SCINTILLATING AND CHARMING
Natalya Fedorova MacWilliams
Natalya and her husband moved to Portland from New York City three years ago as part of her plan to begin a writing career after a successful Wall Street career in investment banking. She currently writes short stories that draw on her memories and experiences growing up in Russia and then coming to America at the age of nineteen. She is particularly interested in generational family histories, and is collecting information about her maternal grandmother, who witnessed so much of the devastating history of the Soviet Union under the Communist regime.
Jefferson Navicky
Jefferson’s work has appeared in Tarpaulin Sky, Bombay Gin, Pindeldyboz, Staccato, Smokelong Quarterly, Octopus and Omphalos; in 2007 Black Lodge Press published his chapbook Map of the Second Person. His one-act play, Lungfish, is a part of Acorn Production’s 2010 Maine Playwrights Festival. A Portland resident, Jefferson teaches English at Southern Maine Community College.
Chris Gray (rescheduled from Scratchpad #1)
Chris Gray is the listings coordinator for the Portland Phoenix, and his freelance work has appeared there, the Boston Phoenix and PopMatters. He can’t quite get it together enough to maintain a blog, though one day ofmaine.wordpress.com may become active again. He will either read a story wherein he has to briefly imitate the voice of a ’70s porn star or, out of gut-churning fear at the prospect, will compose something new in the hours before his reading.