AFK#3: A reading with Peter Gizzi, Tim-Tim Cheng, Heather Rankin and Sam Rodilosso

Heather Rankin is a creative writing student and writer from Glasgow. She works in both experimental prose and poetry; Having had work published on The Word’s Faire and shortlisted for The Stinging Fly. Her upcoming doctoral research begins this autumn.

Sam Rodilosso is an undergraduate studying English Literature at American University in Washington DC, is currently studying abroad at the University of Edinburgh, and recently finished his first manuscript entitled Fuse Box. He was born and raised on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland.

Tim Tim Cheng (she/they) is a poet from Hong Kong. Her debut collection, The Tattoo Collector (Nine Arches Press, 2024), is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her pamphlet, Tapping at Glass (Verve, 2023), was shortlisted for The Kavya Prize and named one of The Poetry Society’s Books of the Year. In her work, she explores the intersection between the personal and political, land and body.

Peter Gizzi is the author of several collections of poetry, most recently Fierce Elegy (2023), Now It’s Dark (2020), and Archeophonics, a finalist for the National Book Award (2016), all from Wesleyan. In 2020 Carcanet brought out Sky Burial: New and Selected Poems and in 2024 Penguin published an edition of Fierce Elegy which was awarded the T.S. Eliot Prize. He is currently a Senior Global Fellow at the University of St. Andrews. He teaches poetry and poetics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.