Author Talk: All is the Telling & Come Clean

Originally from Tampa, Fl, Rosa Castellano is a poet and teacher living in Richmond, VA. A finalist for Cave Canem’s Starshine and Clay Fellowship, and co-founder of the RVA Poetry Fest, her poems can be found or are forthcoming from RHINO Poetry, Diode, Passages North, Nimrod, The Ninth Letter, and Poetry Northwest among others. She has an MFA from VCU and her debut poetry collection, All Is the Telling, will be out this Spring from Diode editions.

Joshua Nguyen is the author of Come Clean (University of Wisconsin Press), winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, the Writers' League of Texas Discovery Award, and the Mississippi Institute of Arts & Letters Poetry Award. He is also the author of the chapbooks, American Lục Bát for My Mother (Bull City Press) and Hidden Labor & The Naked Body (Sundress Publications). He is a Vietnamese-American writer, a collegiate national poetry slam champion (CUPSI),…