Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes, Sabrina Islam, & Lucian Mattison at "In Your Ear" Reading Series

December 2019's installment of the "In Your Ear," held at the DC Arts Center in Adams Morgan, featured Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes, Sabrina Islam, and Lucian Mattison

Sabrina Islam is from Dhaka, Bangladesh. She spent her early childhood in New York, Connecticut, and Florida. She holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from University of Maryland, where she teaches academic and creative writing. Her work can be found in Flock, Acta Victoriana, Prairie Schooner, and the minnesota review.

Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes is the author of The Sleeping World (Touchstone, 2016). She has received fellowships from Yaddo, Hedgebrook, the Millay Colony, and the Blue Mountain Center. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in One Story, The New England Review, The Common, Cosmonauts Avenue, Slice, Pank, and elsewhere. She is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and English at the University of Maryland. She grew up in a Cuban-Irish-American family in Wisconsin.

Lucian Mattison is a US-Argentine poet and translator and author of two books of poetry, Reaper's Milonga (YesYes Books, 2018) and Peregrine Nation (Dynamo Verlag, 2017). He has won the Puerto Del Sol Poetry Prize and his poetry, short fiction, and translations appear in numerous journals including CutBank, Hayden's Ferry Review, Hobart, Juked, Nano Fiction, The Nashville Review, The Offing, Sixth Finch, and Third Coast. He is based out of Washington, DC. Read more at Lucianmattison.com