Join us for the Ithaca launch of my debut collection of poems UNDERSHORE! I’ll be reading along with two other wonderful Ithaca poets, Winniebell Xinyu Zong and Elisávet Makridis!

Winniebell Xinyu Zong is a Chinese poet and chapbook editor at Newfound Press. She was the 2020 Frontier Poetry editorial fellow and a spring 2021 publishing intern at Copper Canyon Press. Her recent poems are forthcoming or have appeared in POETRY, crazyhorse (now swamp pink), The Southern Review, CHERRY MOON: Emerging Voices from the Asian Diaspora, and Meridian, among others. Nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best New Poets, Best of Net, and AWP’s Intro Journals Project, Zong holds an MA from Kansas State University and is an MFA poetry candidate at Cornell University. You can find her at winniebellxzong.com.

Elisávet Makridis (she/her) is a Pushcart Prize & Best New Poets nominated poet-educator raised between Astoria, New York & Greece. Winner of Ruminate Magazine's 2022 Poetry Prize judged by Rajiv Mohabir & Inverted Syntax's Sublingua Prize for Poetry, her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Hayden's Ferry Review, Canthius, Indiana Review, Reed Magazine, Grist, Frontier Poetry, among others. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Cornell University where she teaches as a lecturer in the Department of Literatures in English.