Grown Ass Women (G.A.W.): A Rail Reading curated by Pattie McCarthy

Marcella Durand is the author of several books, most recently To husband is to tender (Black Square Editions, 2021), and is the 2021 recipient of the C.D. Wright Award in Poetry from the Foundation of Contemporary Art. She is currently working on a new collection with a tri-part title: Circles for Wheelmakers/Prosthetic Tongue/Detective of the Invisible.

Tonya M. Foster is the author of A Swarm of Bees in High Court; La Grammaire des Os; and the forthcoming Thingifications. She is a co-editor of Third Mind: Teaching Creative Writing through Visual Arts; and the forthcoming Umbra Galaxy (Wesleyan University Press). A recipient of awards and fellowships from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (C.D. Wright Award), SF MoAD, Headlands Center for the Arts, Radcliffe Institute, Creative Capital Foundation, the Mellon and the Ford Foundations, among others, Dr. Foster holds the George & Judy Marcus Endowed Chair in Poetry at San Francisco State University. She is the author of a host of yet-to-be-finished projects.

Karen Weiser has two full-length collections of poetry from Ugly Duckling Presse, To Light Out and Or, The Ambiguities. She works as a psychoanalyst and has published essays on Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville.

Pattie McCarthy is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Wifthing (Apogee Press, 2021), and a dozen chapbooks, most recently extraordinary tides (Omnidawn Publishing, 2023). A former Pew Fellow in the Arts, she is a non-tenure track professor at Temple University where she teaches literature and creative writing.