Fall for the Book Author Event
It's time for our annual reading at the Fall for the Book festival! We're excited to be hosting Brianna Low, the 2016 Poetry Chapbook Contest winner, and Kelly Lorraine Andrews, the runner-up, for a reading during this stellar regional book festival, which also supports our press.
The Gazing Grain reading will take place on September 25th, 2016, from 3:00-4:15 pm at the Sherwood Center (3740 Old Lee Highway, Fairfax, VA 22030) in Performance Room B. Brianna and Kelly will re


Interview with Poetry Contest Winner Brianna Low
Sarah Marcus: Rachel Eliza Griffiths describes your beautiful new chapbook, Drift, as "a lucid and searing exploration of the female body, pinned against the feral blood of language and myth." Can you talk a bit more about the role of the female body in this work. Did you intentionally set out to examine this theme or did it emerge organically? Brianna Low: These poems were written while I was living in southern Indiana and trying to complete the final year of my MFA. Gradua