Poison Pen is Houston’s reading series located at Poison Girl. Located on the back patio of PG, three readers will bring their best work.

Thursday, May 26, at 8:30 pm, featuring Gabriella Adriana Iacono, Aliah Lavonne Tigh, and Reyes Ramirez.

About the Readers:

Gabriella Adriana Iacono is a writer, artist, and educator from Staten Island, New York. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Southeast Review, SAND, minnesota review, Defunkt Magazine, Portmanteau LDN, and elsewhere. Iacono holds an MFA in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston. Currently, she lives here in Houston, Texas, with her partner and dog, and she teaches creative writing with Writers in the Schools while she completes her first collection of poetry.

Aliah Lavonne Tigh is the author of Weren’t We Natural Swimmers, a 2022 chapbook with Tram Editions out now, and her poems have appeared in Guernica, The Texas Review, Matter Monthly, The Rupture, and others. Tigh has joined other writers for the Tin House Summer Workshop, contributed work for a Gulf Coast Journal and Texas Contemporary ekphrastic collaboration and was a grateful Recipient of Idyllwild Arts’ 2017 Bentley-Buckman Writing Fellowship. She holds poetry and philosophy degrees from the University of Houston and an MFA from Antioch Los Angeles. Tigh lives in Houston, Texas.

Reyes Ramirez (he/him) is a Houstonian, writer, educator, curator, and organizer of Mexican and Salvadoran descent. He authored the short story collection The Book of Wanderers (2022) from University of Arizona Press’ Camino del Sol series and the poetry collection Answers Without Questions (2023) from Hub City Press. Reyes has been honored as a 2020 CantoMundo Fellow, 2021 Interchange Artist Grant Fellow, 2022 Crosstown Arts Writer in Residence, 2023 Dobie Paisano Fellow, and awarded grants from the Houston Arts Alliance, Poets & Writers, and The Warhol Foundation’s Idea Fund.