Garin Cycholl’s 2022 novel, Rx, is a play on The Confidence-Man, a man practicing medicine without a license in a Dis-united States. His recent work has appeared in The Typescript, ACM, and The Dead Mule of Southern Literature.

Meghan Lamb is the author of COWARD (2022), Failure to Thrive (2021), All of Your Most Private Places (2020), and Silk Flowers (2017). She recently served as the Philip Roth Writer-in-Residence at Bucknell University, and teaches writing through the University of Chicago, Story Studio, and GrubStreet. Her work has appeared in Quarterly West, DIAGRAM, Redivider, and Passages North, among other publications. She runs the shadow text reading series Significant Others, and serves as the fiction editor of Bridge, a Chicago magazine of literature, art criticism, and cultural reporting, and the nonfiction editor of Nat. Brut, a Whiting Award-winning journal of art and literature dedicated to advancing inclusivity in all creative fields. She is also the front woman of Kill Scenes, an 80s horror-themed dark wave band.

Fiction Reading: Garin Cycholl and Meghan Lamb