9/10/26, Kai Malested/Virtual Thursdays Dire Literary Series, plus Q and A with Timothy Gager

Kai Maristed's award-winning collection The Age of Migration transforms a lifetime of living as "the other" into stories that speak to some of the most urgent issues of our time: migration, cultural displacement, identity, and the struggle to navigate overwhelming change. Kai is the author of the novels Broken Ground, Fall, and Out After Dark, as well as the story collection Belong to Me, starred by Publishers Weekly. Her work has appeared in The American Scholar, The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, AGNI, The Iowa Review, and elsewhere. A frequent book reviewer for print and online, produced playwright, and translator from German and French, she has taught writing at Harvard, Emerson College, and the Warren Wilson MFA Program. Kai lives in Paris and Cape Cod when not on the move. =========== Timothy Gager is the author of 20 books of fiction and poetry, which includes his fourth novel, Shadows of the Seen, and his most recent collection of poetry, Almost Bluing for X-Tra Whiteness. He hosted the successful Dire Literary Series in Cambridge, MA from 2001 to 2018, and started a weekly virtual series in 2020. He has had over 1000 works of fiction and poetry published, 19 nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His work also has been nominated for a Massachusetts Book Award, The Best of the Web, The Best Small Fictions Anthology and has been read on National Public Radio. In 2023, Big Table Publishing published an anthology of twenty years of his selected work, with 175 pages of new material: The Best of Timothy Gager. Timothy is the former Fiction Editor of The Wilderness House Literary Review, and the founding co-editor of The Heat City Literary Review. He also co-hosts the podcast "Dean and Dawes: Dating, Dread, and Disasters". A graduate of the University of Delaware, Timothy lives in Dedham, Massachusetts, and is employed as a social worker.