Sep
29
8:00 PM20:00

Terrain.org: Online Reading with Joe Wilkins, Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams & Steve Edwards

Join Terrain.org for an online reading featuring award-winning writers Joe Wilkins, Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams, and Steve Edwards. The reading will be followed by a Q&A.

Registration for this online event is required. Zoom hosting generously provided by the University of Arizona.

Joe Wilkins is the author of two novels, The Entire Sky and Fall Back Down When I Die; a memoir, The Mountain and the Fathers; and five collections of poetry, including Pastoral, 1994 and When We Were Birds. His latest book is Every Sky at Home: Essays on Landscape and Family. Born and raised north of the Bull Mountains of eastern Montana, he lives with his family in the foothills of the Coast Range of Oregon.  

Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams received the Whiting Writers’ Award for her novella, The Man Who Danced with Dolls, and her memoir-in-progress, The Following Sea. She has been further supported by a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, a North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship, the Robert F. Hartsook Fellowship, and the Robert H. Byington Fellowship. Her work has appeared in Orion, the Oxford American, StoryQuarterly, the Southern Humanities Review, The Pinch, the Raleigh Review, MAYDAY Magazine, Carolina Quarterly, and elsewhere. Originally from the Mariana Islands, Abrams now lives and teaches on the southeastern coast of North Carolina. 

Steve Edwards is author of Rare Good: Essays on Art, Autism, and Astonishment (forthcoming, fall 2026) and the memoir Breaking Into the Backcountry, the story of his half-year as the solitary caretaker of a wilderness homestead along the Rogue River in Oregon. His essays appear in The Yale Review, The Sun, Orion, The Rumpus, Lit Hub, Longreads, & elsewhere. He lives in metrowest Boston and teaches writing at Fitchburg State University.

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Aug
20
7:30 PM19:30

What the Universe Is: Felicia Zamora and Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams

THIS READING HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED! Please note the new date — and the same registration link: bit.ly/WTUIAug2026

This reading has been in the works for a long time — and it is absolutely worth the wait! Felicia Zamora and Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams are brilliant writers and close friends, and I’m thrilled to be hosting them for this reading.

Felicia Zamora is the author of eight books of poetry including Murmuration Archives (Akrilica Series, Noemi Press 2026), Interstitial Archaeology (Wisconsin Poetry Series 2025), I Always Carry My Bones (2021) winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize and the Ohioana Book Award in poetry, and Body of Render (2020) winner of the Benjamin Saltman Award. She’s won the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, Loraine Williams Poetry Prize, C.P. Cavafy Prize, Tomaž Šalamun Prize, Wabash Prize, and two Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards as well as received fellowships and residencies from CantoMundo, Ragdale Foundation, Tin House, and Yaddo. Her writing appears in Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day, Alaska Quarterly Review, The American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry 2022, Boston Review, Brevity, Ecotone, The Georgia Review, Gulf Coast, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, Lit Hub, The Missouri Review, Orion, Ploughshares, Poetry Magazine, The Nation, Virginia Quarterly Review, and others. She’s been poetry faculty for Tin House, Kenyon Review’s Residential Workshops, Orion’s Environmental Workshops, and the Sewanee Writer’s Conference. She is a poetry editor for Colorado Review and an associate professor of poetry at the University of Cincinnati where she was a 2025-2026 Taft Research Center Fellow.

Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams is the recipient of the Whiting Writers’ Award, the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, a North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship, the Robert F. Hartsook Fellowship, and the Robert H. Byington Leadership Fellowship. Her work has appeared in Orion, the Oxford American, StoryQuarterly, the Southern Humanities Review, The Pinch, the Raleigh Review, MAYDAY Magazine, Carolina Quarterly, and elsewhere. Originally from the Pacific Islands, Abrams now lives and teaches on the southeastern coast of North Carolina.

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