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I will be reading at Sundance Books and Music in Reno, Nevada, with local poet Julian guy, at 6.30pm, Tuesday 30 May. Hope to see you there!

We are proud to host local poet Julian Guy and visiting poet Ryan Van Winkle for a reading at 6:30.

Julian Guy is a senior at the University of Nevada, Reno where she studies fiction and poetry. She is the winner of the 2018 spring DQ Writing award. She has been a Literary Director for the Brushfire Literary & Arts Journal, and has been awarded the James H. MacMillan and J. Lee Taylor Creative Writing scholarships for her excellence in poetry. Born and raised in Reno, Nevada, Julian calls the desert her home.

Ryan Van Winkle is a poet, editor and live artist living in Edinburgh. His second collection, The Good Dark, won the Saltire Society’s 2015 Poetry Book of the Year award. His poems have appeared in New Writing Scotland, The Prairie Schooner and The American Poetry Review. As a member of Highlight Arts he has organized festivals and translation workshops in Syria, Pakistan and Iraq. He was awarded a Robert Louis Stevenson fellowship in 2012 and the Jessie Kesson fellowship at Moniack Mhor in 2018. For more information, visit www.ryanvanwinkle.com