Join us on Zoom at 6pm for a virtual discussion with Stephen Policoff and Riley Rennhack about Stephen’s memoir, A Ribbon for Your Hair.

Stephen Policoff’s second novel, Come Away, won the Mid-Career Author Award and was published by Dzanc Books in November 2014. His memoir, Sixteen Scenes From A Film I Never Wanted To See, was published by Monkey Puzzle Press, in January 2014. His essay, “Music Today?” about his disabled daughter’s experience in music therapy, won the Fish Short Memoir Prize and was published in Fish Anthology 2012 (West Cork University Press, Ireland). His first novel, Beautiful Somewhere Else, won the James Jones Award and was published by Carrol & Graf in 2004. His fiction and essays have recently appeared in THE RUMPUS, KINDLING QUARTERLY, PROVINCETOWN ARTS, and many other publications. His 3rd novel, Dangerous Blues, will be published by Flexible Press in Fall 2022. He is currently Clinical Professor of Writing in Global Liberal Studies at NYU.

Riley Rennhack has been working with and around books for most of her adult life, and she has been a fanatical reader for as long as I can remember. She grew up in DFW, but spent a decade in NYC reading and writing and getting paid to sell books. At one time or another she has been a teacher, a performance artist, a translator, a barista, a poet, a domestic worker, and a booking agent. She has also been a judge for the Cercador Prize and the Firecracker awards, and for five years she was the buyer and manager at Deep Vellum Books. As of December 2024, she is a mom—by far the coolest and most radical thing she’s ever done.