First annual Red Wing Literary Salon with John Jodzio, Molly Sutton Kiefer, Michelle Meyer, and Jacqueline West at the Red Wing Arts Clay & Creative Center. John will also be releasing his new chapbook “This is the Decade I Kept Getting Stabbed.”

Readings will start at 6pm.

John Jodzio's work has been featured in a variety of places including This American Life, McSweeney's, and New York Magazine. He's the author of the short story collections, Knockout, Get In If You Want To Live and If You Lived Here You’d Already Be Home. He lives in Minneapolis.

Molly Sutton Kiefer is the author of the lyric essay Nestuary (Ricochet Editions) as well as three poetry chapbooks. Her work has recently appeared in Orion, Colorado Review, the minnesota review, The Journal, and elsewhere. She is founding editor of Tinderbox Poetry Journal and runs the nonprofit press Tinderbox Editions. She lives with her family in Minnesota, where she teaches high school.

Michelle Meyer (@meeshmeyerwrites / www.michellemeyerwrites.com) is a 50-something emerging poet, the author of 10 Pieces of Truth, a chapbook, and The Book of She, a full-length collection of poetic character vignettes devoted to women. Her poems have appeared in After the Pause, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Humana Obscura, Minnow Literary Magazine, Red Eft Review, Tabula Rasa Review, and Welter Online, among others. Michelle’s latest collection, The Trouble With Being a Childless Only Child is forthcoming from Cornerstone Press.

Jacqueline West is the author of the New York Times-bestselling middle grade series The Books of Elsewhere, the Schneider Family Award Honor Book The Collectors, and the YA horror novel Last Things. Her most recent book, Long Lost, received the Minnesota Book Award for middle grade literature. An award-winning poet and occasional actress, Jacqueline lives with her family in Red Wing, Minnesota.

John Jodzio is a fiscal year 2022 recipient of a Creative Support for Individuals grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.