Reading | 4 Writers: Brian Trimboli / Wayétu Moore / Courtney Zoffness / Ashley Tomeck

Brian Trimboli received a fellowship to assist with NYU’s Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Writing Workshop last year. He was also the co-poetry editor for The Washington Square Review, and a co-curator for the KGB Emerging Writers Reading Series. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and has poems forthcoming in The Indiana Review, Third Coast, LIT, and Forklift, Ohio.

Wayétu Moore is a writer based in New York City. She was first published at age 8 in the anthology, "A Celebration of Texas' Young Poets." She is the former publisher and editor of The Coup Magazine, a literary publication with the goal of unifying women of color through social awareness and political consciousness, and the author of "A Girl of Faith's", an original off-off broadway play produced in 2004. Her current projects include "Gbessa", a novel that employs magical realism to tell the love story of an indigenous Vai witch and tribal chief during the 19th century colonialism of Liberia; and "Magic Money & Other Tales of Wanting", a collection of personal essays that covers her family's escape from the Liberian Civil War of 1990 and their lives as immigrants in lower and middle-class American neighborhoods.

Courtney Zoffness' fiction has appeared in Washington Square, Saint Ann's Review, Tampa Review, the Fish Prize Stories anthology, and elsewhere, and was twice nominated for Best New American Voices. She was a Bread Loaf Writers Conference scholar, a Vermont Studio Center resident, and a finalist for the Tobias Wolff Award in fiction. In the last four years, Courtney has taught creative writing and literature at seven colleges in as many states from the southwest (AZ) to the northeast (CT).

Ashley Tomeck is a southern California native and a recent graduate of the California Institute of the Arts. Her writing consists of short fiction, often incorporating elements of the fantastic and bizarre. She enjoys science fiction, sauvignon blanc, and has an unearthly penchant for snow.