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Leah Nieboer Book Launch and Poetry Reading for Soft Apocalypse


Leah Nieboer's Soft Apocalypse
Event date: 
Wednesday, March 29, 2023 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm

Event Location

Ciné
234 W Hancock Ave.
Athens, GA 30601

The University of Georgia's Creative Writing program, UGA Press and Avid Bookshop present Leah Nieboer as she launches her new book, Soft Apocalypse, on March 29, 2023, at 7:00pm. The reading will take place at Ciné's Lab.

Leah Nieboer grew up in rural Iowa. She is a PhD candidate in English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver, a graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, the winner of the 2022 Mountain West Writers’ Contest in Poetry, and the recipient of a Virginia Center for Creative Arts Fellowship. Her first collection of poetry, Soft Apocalypse, was selected by Andrew Zawacki as the winner of the 2021 Georgia Poetry Prize, and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Brooklyn Rail, Poetry Daily, Western Humanities Review, Interim, and other publications. She lives in Denver and is at work on a speculative novel.

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Soft Apocalypse (Georgia Poetry Prize) By Leah Nieboer, Andrew Zawacki (Selected by) Cover Image
By Leah Nieboer, Andrew Zawacki (Selected by)
$19.95
ISBN: 9780820363691
Availability: May be on our shelves (or available in 5-10 business days)
Published: University of Georgia Press - March 15th, 2023

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