Pen Parentis

Tuesday, May 12
Pen Parentis is Proud to Present
Joanna Hershon & Joshua Henkin

Joanna Hershon is the author of three novels: Swimming, The Outside of August, and The German Bride, which recently had its paperback release. She has been an Edward Albee Fellow, a Writer-in-Residence at Porter-Gaud in Charleston, and has taught in the Undergraduate Creative Writing department at Columbia University. Her writing has been included in the 2008 literary anthology Brooklyn Was Mine, short-listed for the 2007 O. Henry Prize Stories, and has appeared in One Story, Post Road, Five Chapters and The Virginia Quarterly Review. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, the painter Derek Buckner, and their twin sons.

Joshua Henkin is the author of the novel MATRIMONY (Pantheon, 2007, Vintage, 2008), which was named a New York Times Notable Book, a Book Sense Highlight Pick of the Year, and a Borders Original Voices Selection. He is also the author of the novel SWIMMING ACROSS THE HUDSON, which was named a Los Angeles Times notable book. His short stories have been published in Glimmer Train, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, The Yale Review, Triquarterly, DoubleTake, The North American Review, The New England Review, Boulevard, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and two small daughters and teaches in the creative writing programs at Sarah Lawrence College and Brooklyn College, and at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y.

The Details…

DATE: Tuesday, May 12
TIME: 6-8 pm, come after work!
LOCATION: The Upstairs Library at the Libertine, inside the Gildhall Hotel @ 15 Gold Street, NYC.
DIRECTIONS: Walking directions from A/C (@ Broadway/Nassau) or 2/3/4/5/J/M/Z (@ Fulton) trains: Walk east on Fulton Street to Gold Street, turn right and right again at Platt.