Strange Currencies: A Podcast For Songwriters

The third meeting of a new literary series in which writers share and reflect upon their work. Michelle Sierra Laffitte is a Mexican-born writer, journalist and editor based in New York. Her fiction work has appeared in Joyland and Evergreen Review. Her non-fiction work has been published in magazines and outlets including Reuters.com, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, CNN, Expansión and MSNBC. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School and a Masters of International Affairs from Columbia University. She lives in Brooklyn. Lena Valencia's writing has appeared or is forthcoming in CRAFT, Joyland, The Masters Review, and elsewhere. She is the managing editor of One Story and has held positions at A Public Space and BOMB Magazine. From 2014 to 2017, she hosted the HiFi Reading Series in Manhattan. She has an MFA in fiction from The New School and is the recipient of a 2019 Elizabeth George Foundation Grant. Mary Newell lives in the lower Hudson Valley. Her chapbook, TILT