Brut, fields, New Letters, The Rattling Wall, and North by Northeast: New short fiction by Writers from Maine and New England. I also write short fiction, which has appeared in great places like Salamander, Nat. I was raised in Louisville, Kentucky, moved around a bit (California, Missouri), and now live in Portland, Maine, with my woodworking/ artist husband Adam Stockman, and our daughter. In the winter of 2021 she was a resident at the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation in Rockland, ME. She’s taught creative writing to kids in Detroit Public Schools through the organization InsideOut Literary Arts as well as to kids in the juvenile detention system through Youth Arts Alliance.

She was long listed in the 2020 Tarpaulin Sky Book Awards and was a semi-finalist in the 2019 Pleiades Press Short Prose Book Contest. Her debut book of creative nonfiction, An Arbitrary Formation of Unspecified Value, is out now from PANK Books. Her essays have appeared in Hotel Amerika, Quarter After Eight, saltfront, Hobart, COVEN Berlin, and After Happy Hour Review – among others. Jennifer is a Detroit-based writer and holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from Northern Michigan University. The evening will begin with readings from each author, and be followed by a panel conversation moderated by MWPA’s Gibson Fay LeBlanc. Join us for a literary event celebrating the recent book releases of Lungfish from Meghan Gilliss and An Arbitrary Formation of Unspecified Value by Jennifer Quartararo.

Lungfish by meghan gilliss