Join us to celebrate the official launch of Jessica Mooney‘s new chapbook, Parting Gifts for Losing Contestants, a collection of essays which explores the kaleidoscopic nature of grief as one drifts through different stages and manifestations of loss. From the personal to the political, these essays serve as distinct yet conjoined rooms, leading the reader through vertiginous states of absence to the stark yet off-kilter reality of what remains.

Jess will read from her new book, joined by poet Sarah Galvin and writer Leah Baltus, who will lead the conversation at the end of the reading.