The Word Barn is thrilled to present three talented writers this September -- Daphne Kalotay, Michael Brosnan, and Rishi Reddi – as part of the Silo Series.

$5 suggested donation | Doors at 3:30pm | Reading at 4:00

Published in 20+ languages, Daphne Kalotay’s books include the award-winning novels Russian Winter (winner of the 2011 Writers’ League of Texas Fiction Prize), Sight Reading (winner the 2014 New England Society Book Award in Fiction), and Blue Hours (a 2020 Massachusetts Book Award “Must Read”), as well as two story collections: Calamity and Other Stories, shortlisted for The Story Prize, and The Archivists, winner of the Grace Paley Prize. Kalotay is a recipient of fellowships from the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, MacDowell, and Yaddo, among others. Kalotay received her MFA and PhD from Boston University, and she lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Michael Brosnan is the author of two poetry collections, The Sovereignty of the Accidental (Harbor Mountain Press, 2018) and Adrift (Grayson Books, 2023). A third book is due out in early 2024. About his first collection, poet Naomi Shihab Nye writes, “A stunning book.... Poems which stir language, memory, momentary intense awareness, to give us back the bracing joy of clear thinking.” Michael is also the author of Against the Current (Heineman), a work of nonfiction focused on urban school reform. For over two decades, he served as the editor of an award-winning magazine on education and writes often on the topic. Brosnan lives in Exeter, New Hampshire.

Rishi Reddi is the author of the novel Passage West, a Los Angeles Times “Best California Book of 2020” and Karma and Other Stories, which received the 2008 L.L. Winship /PEN New England Award for Fiction. Her short stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories, been broadcast on NPR, and earned honorable mention in the Pushcart Prize.  Her reviews, essays and translations have appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, Kirkus Reviews, LitHub, Partisan Review, Alta Journal, and Air/Light, among others. Reddi has received fellowships and grants from the National Book Critics Circle, MacDowell Colony, Bread Loaf, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the U.S. Department of State. She lives in Cambridge, MA.