Event
7 p.m.–9 p.m.
Mentor Series Reading with Anaïs Duplan and Chris Stark

Presenters
Anaïs Duplan
Anaïs Duplan is a trans* poet, curator, and artist. He is the author of book I NEED MUSIC (Action Books, 2021), a book of essays, Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture (Black Ocean, 2020), a full-length poetry collection, Take This Stallion (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2016), and a chapbook, Mount
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Chris Stark
Chris Stark's second novel, Carnival Lights, about two Ojibwe teen girls who leave their reservation for Minneapolis in 1969, was a 2022 Minnesota Book Award finalist and won the NEMBA Award for Best Fiction Book. Her first novel, Nickels: A Tale of Dissociation, was a Lambda Literary finalist. She
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Michelle Jayne
Michelle Jayne is a literary fiction writer of short stories and novels. Her fiction reflects a love of and curiosity about the natural world, as well as the alchemy that happens between humans and the environment. She served as a Russian Linguist in the US Army. She holds a BA in Soviet and East
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Angelina Nguyen
Angelina Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American writer—essayist, blogger, and memoirist—who writes to heal intergenerational trauma and strengthen community. Her target audience are fellow Vietnamese-American millennials whose families fought in, survived, and fled from war, who inherit trauma and must
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Mary Beth Becker
Mary Beth Becker was raised in the woods north of Omaha, Nebraska, but lives with her wife in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in Mud Season Review, Split Rock Review, Hobart, West Trade Review, Spillway, and Wayfarer. She is a Pushcart Prize and Best-of-the
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Location
The Loft at Open Book
Price
Regular $10.00
Friend $5.00
Genre
Multigenre
Graphic depicting the upcoming Mentor Series reading with the headshots of the two mentors and three fellows.

The Loft Literary Center Presents a 2025-2026 Loft Mentor Series Reading with mentors Anaïs Duplan and Chris Stark and fellows Michelle Jayne, Angelina Nguyen, and Mary Beth Becker.

The Loft Mentor Series in Poetry and Creative Prose offers twelve early career Minnesota writers the opportunity to work intensively with eight nationally acclaimed writers of prose and poetry.

A limited number of pay-what-you-can seats will be available at the door on a first come, first served basis.

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Artists
Anaïs Duplan
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Chris Stark
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Michelle Jayne
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Angelina Nguyen
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Mary Beth Becker
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