Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry’s story collection, What Isn’t Remembered, has received three STARRED reviews from Booklist, Publisher's Weekly, and

Foreword. She will give a reading and answer questions from the audience.

Gorcheva-Newberry is a Russian-Armenian émigré, who moved to the U.S. in 1995 after

witnessing perestroika and the collapse of the Soviet Empire. Writing in English, her second language,

she has published over 50 stories and received eight Pushcart nominations. Her work has appeared

in Electric Literature, Indiana Review, the Southern Review, Gulf Coast, TriQuarterly, Prairie Schooner,

Nimrod, and elsewhere. Gorcheva-Newberry won the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize

in Fiction for her debut story collection, What Isn't Remembered (9/1/21.) Other honors include

the 2013 Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction and 2015 Tennessee Williams scholarship

from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She lives with her family, splitting her time between Virginia,

New York, and Russia. www.kgnewberry.com