Join Fourteen Hills, the graduate student-run, award-winning literary magazine for our Issue #29 release! The event will feature contributors Kurt Schweigman, Susan Calvillo, Molly Blumhoefer, and editor Jasmine Mosher (reading for Rachel Deutsch), who will share their excellent, expansive works of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.
We will have light refreshments, a raffle, and issues for sale! Masks required except when eating and drinking.
Names/bios of readers
Susan Calvillo is a Chinese/Mexican-American mother of 2020 twins and the author of Excerpts From My Grocery List (Beard of Bees). Her short works have appeared in Zyzzyva, New American Writing, West Wind Review, Lumina, Cipactli, and other charming magazines. Keep reading at susancalvillo.com, follow on TikTok @thatbeardlessbard, or simply watch her eat cake and plant cacti on Instagram @susan_calvillo.
Molly Anne Blumhoefer writes creative nonfiction, short fiction, poetry and hybrid. Much of her work explores subcultures of urban life, military families, and religious trauma. She grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota and currently lives with her partner in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her work has been published in Harpy Hybrid Review, Lind of Advance, Eclectica, and more.
Kurt Schweigman is Oglala/Sicangu Lakota, born and raised in South Dakota, currently residing in Sonoma County, California. He is co-editor of Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California (Scarlet Tanager, 2016). His new poetry book Confluences of Solitude (Mitote Press, 2023) is his first book in nearly a decade. Kurt’s bilingual poetry book Roots Define the Reach of My Branches will be published by Gilgamesh Press (Mantua, Italy) in the summer of 2023. Currently, he is writing his first novel titled Sitting Bull in Paris which is contemporary and historical fiction.
Jasmine Mosher is a writer, movement practitioner, teacher, and evolving interdisciplinary artist. She is currently working on her MFA in Creative Writing at San Francisco State University and received her BFA in Dance from California State University, Long Beach.
Rachel Deutsch's illustrations and writing have appeared in The New Yorker Daily Shouts, McSweeney's, PRISM International, The Pinch, and more. She lives in Montreal with her partner and two small kids.