WRB Presents | April 2024
with readings from Ryan Ruby, Zain Khalid, Austyn Wohlers, and Twitter’s Audrey Horne.
The WRB Presents the first in a regular series of readings featuring authors from without and within Washington, D.C., hosted by Michael Barron, Lauren Cerand, and Chris McCaffery. On April 10, these four writers will read their work:
Ryan Ruby, a writer and translator from Los Angeles, California. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, the New York Review of Books, the New York Times, Bookforum, the New Left Review and elsewhere;
Zain Khalid, an American writer and novelist from New York. His debut novel, Brother Alive, won the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award and the CLMP Firecracker Award for Fiction, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize for best first book in any genre, and was shortlisted for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. Khalid is also the recipient of the 2024 Bard Fiction Prize. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, n+1, The Believer, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, and elsewhere. He is a contributing editor at The Drift;
Austyn Wohlers, who is from Atlanta and lives in Baltimore, where she runs the Near Future reading series and plays in the band Tomato Flower. Her writing has previously appeared in the Massachusetts Review, Guernica, Asymptote, the Cincinnati Review, the Kenyon Review, R&R and elsewhere, and has been supported by Tin House and Sewanee. In 2022, she was the winner of the University of Notre Dame’s Sparks Prize Fellowship, selected by Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint. Hub City Press will publish Hothouse Bloom, her first novel, in Spring 2026; and
- , who writes and posts from Washington, D.C., and elsewhere.