Photo credits:  Quintan Ana Wikswo, Andy Vernon-Jones

The Red Eye Cafe will open its doors at 6pm for coffee, food and mingling. The reading will start at 7pm. Our final reading for the '15-'16 season will feature James Capozzi, Sarah Dohrmann, Apryl Lee and Helen Phillips. 

James Capozzi is the author of Country Album (Parlor Press, 2012), which won the New Measure Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, New Republic, and Poetry, and he has been the recipient of fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, James A. Michener Foundation, and Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild. He lives in Montclair.

Sarah Dohrmann is a Brooklyn-based writer of literary nonfiction and fiction. She has been a Fulbright fellow to Morocco, a New York Foundation for the Arts fellow, a two-time Jerome Foundation Travel and Study grantee, a fellow with the Aspen Writers' Foundation, and a Workspace writer-in-residence at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Sarah received the 2015 Sarah Verdone Writing Award and was co-recipient, with photographer Tiana Markova-Gold, of the 2010 Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Her work has appeared in Harper's Magazine, Tin House, and The Iowa Review, among others. She is currently at work on her first book, which is a memoir. To learn more about Sarah, please visit her website at www.sarahdohrmann.com.

Apryl Lee's short stories and essays have been published by Necessary Fiction, Word Riot, and The Feminist Breeder among others. She is an MFA graduate of the fiction writing program at Sarah Lawrence College. In addition to being the cofounder of Halfway There, the wildly successful Montclair reading series, she is currently working on her first novel and a collection of New Jersey stories. She teaches sceenwriting at Seton Hall University and lives with her husband and son in New Jersey.

Helen Phillips is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award and the Italo Calvino Prize, among others. She is the author of the novel The Beautiful Bureaucrat (a New York Times Notable Book and finalist for the Los Angeles TimesBook Prize) and the collection And Yet They Were Happy (named a notable book by The Story Prize). Her most recent book, the short story collection Some Possible Solutions, publishes in May 2016. She is an assistant professor in the English Department at Brooklyn College.