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Join us at Book Culture's 112th Street location for the inaugural reading in our new Undergraduate Creative Writing series, where we celebrate new releases from our esteemed faculty! Featuring readings from Adjunct Assistant Professors Sophie Kemp '23 (Paradise Logic), Anika Jade Levy '23 (Flat Earth), Melissa Lozada-Oliva (Candelaria; Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, Jesus Is Alive!), and Giada Scodellaro (Some of Them Will Carry Me; Ruins, Child). Readings will be followed by a brief moderated conversation with Assistant Professor Hilary Leichter '12, and an audience Q+A.
Sophie Kemp is the author of Paradise Logic (Simon & Schuster, 2025). Her fiction and essays have appeared in Granta, The Paris Review, The New York Times, Vogue, and The Baffler.
Anika Jade Levy is a writer from Colorado. She is a founding editor of Forever Magazine and teaches in the Writing program at Pratt Institute. Her fiction and criticism has appeared in Interview Magazine, Nylon, Flaunt, Grand, and elsewhere. Flat Earth (Catapult, 2025) is her first book.
Melissa Lozada-Oliva is a novelist, poet, and screenwriter. She is the author of the novel-in-verse Dreaming of You (2021), the novel Candelaria (2023), and the collection of short stories Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, Jesus is Alive! (2025). Her work has appeared in Reactor Mag, Harper's Bazaar, BBC Mundo, Vulture, and The New York Times. She lives in Brooklyn.
Giada Scodellaro was born in Naples, Italy and raised in the Bronx, New York. Giada’s writings have appeared in, or are forthcoming from The New Yorker, BOMB, Harper’s, and Granta, among other publications. Giada is a recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship, and is the inaugural Tables of Contents Regenerative Residency fellow. Giada’s debut collection, Some of Them Will Carry Me, was named one of The New Yorker’s best books of 2022. Winner of The Novel Prize, her debut novel, Ruins, Child, will be simultaneously published by New Directions (US), Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK), and Giramondo (AU) in early 2026.
