Fall 2025 Issue Launch Party
On October 22, 2025, we hosted contributors Juliana Lamy, Heather Thompson-Brenner, and Devon Walker-Figueroa for a reading at Trident Booksellers in celebration of our Fall Longform issue. Filming by Caleigh McCrink.
Juliana Lamy is a Haitian fiction writer from South Florida. She is the author of You Were Watching from the Sand: Short Stories (Red Hen Press, 2023), winner of Red Hen Press’s 2021 Ann Petry Award, winner of the 2024 CLMP Firecracker Award for Fiction, and longlisted for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize as well as the 2024 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Fiction.
Heather Thompson-Brenner is a clinical psychologist and emerging writer in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She received her MFA in Creative Writing in 2024 from Boston University, where she received the Saul Bellow Prize and the Leslie Epstein Global Fellowship for fiction. Previously, she attended Harvard University and University of Michigan. Dr. Thompson-Brenner is working on her first novel, Feast of Fools, which is set in 1981 in a liberal, Christian commune.
Devon Walker-Figuero is the author of Philomath (Milkweed Editions, 2021) and Lazarus Species (Milkweed Editions, November 2025).
Filming by Caleigh McCrink.