**The Louis Armstrong Writers-in-Residence Reading**
@
Louis Armstrong House Museum Garden
34-56 107th Street
Corona, NY 11368
Monday May 17
5: 30 reception followed by a 6:00 reading
for directions: www.louisarmstronghouse.org
John Olsen was born and raised in the Adirondack park. As an undergraduate, he studied Psychology at Hofstra University and is currently studying for an MFA at Queens College. His poetry has appeared previously in The Orange Room Review and is forthcoming in Chest and Big Lucks.
Ann Podracky is finishing her MFA in Creative Writing at Queens College this semester. She is a Fiction Editor for the program's online journal Ozone Park and is currently working on a collection of short fictions called Housing Authorities. She thanks Louis and Lucille Armstrong, and all those individuals who have created and made it possible to participate in the Writers-in-Residence at the Louis Armstrong Archives.
Jenna Telesca writes, teaches, lives, and learns in four different boroughs. She is a graduate of the University of Chicago and will receive her MFA in creative writing from Queens College this May. Her writing has been published in elimae and Counterexample Poetics; she’s at work on a collection of strange fairy tales, fables, and other short fiction.
Contact MFA Director Nicole Cooley at ncooley@qc.cuny.edu for more information.
