Author Event: Maggie Cooper in conversation with Ash Trebisacci – Cambridge, MA

Join us for an evening with Maggie Cooper as we celebrate the release of her chapbook of queer flash fiction, The Theme Park of Women’s Bodies.

Maggie will be in conversation with writer Ash Trebisacci. There will be an active discussion and ample time for Q&A. A glass of wine or a non-alcoholic beverage is included with your ticket.

The Theme Park of Women’s Bodies will be available for purchase or you can bring your own copy! There will be opportunities to have your book signed and personalized!

About Maggie Cooper: Maggie (she/her) is a graduate of Yale College, the MFA program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and the Clarion Writers’ Workshop. Maggie’s writing has appeared in The Rumpus, Ninth Letter, Autostraddle, and her fiction chapbook, The Theme Park of Women’s Bodies, is out from Bull City Press this fall. You can follow her on Instagram at @frecklywords.

About The Theme Park of Women’s Bodies : Moving between power plants and pirate ships, remote caves and suburban strip malls, Maggie Cooper’s The Theme Park of Women’s Bodies takes readers on a tour of worlds built by, for, or around women. By turns darkly satirical and almost utopian, Cooper’s fierce, fabulist stories explore the power and promise of these spaces as sanctuaries and strongholds, places of connection and creation. Yet at the same time, they point to the ways that a narrowly defined femininity feeds exploitation and violence, inviting readers to consider the breadth of “woman” as a category with a wide-ranging history, present, and future. Grappling with the role of gender and the body in creating and maintaining communities, these stories dream of worlds where we can all escape our narrow orbits.

About Ash Trebisacci (they/them): Ash is a writer and study abroad advisor based in the Boston area. They have recently published nonfiction in Cleaver Magazine, Off Assignment, and Hunger Mountain, among other places. Their little Leo heart revels in deep conversations with friends, the exquisite queerness of summertime, and in the center of the dance floor. Find them on Twitter until the bitter end at @ishmish17.

NOTE: This event will be held indoors at DEAR ANNIE. A glass of wine or a non-alcoholic beverage is included with your ticket.