Fiction Reading: Amanda Rea & Mary Margaret Alvarado

Amanda Rea is a fifth generation Coloradoan. Her stories and essays have appeared in Harper's, Best American Mystery Stories, One Story, American Short Fiction, Freeman’s, The Missouri Review, The Kenyon Review, The Sun, and elsewhere. She has been awarded a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award in Fiction, a Pushcart Prize, and the William Peden Prize. She lives in Denver with her husband, daughter, and neurotic dog.

Mary Margaret Alvarado's Come on by and hear some fiction! We'll make you laugh, we'll make you cry? Labor/work themed because: May Day! writing has been published in VQR, Outside, The Boston Review, The Kenyon Review, The Point, The Atavist, Cagibi, The Iowa Review, The Georgia Review, The Rumpus, The Baffler, and elsewhere. She is the author of American Weather, Hey Folly, and Chrome of Iris. The founding director of Brave Irene's, Mia is a mother, muralist, teacher, and the incoming nonfiction editor at Image Journal.

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