Go Ahead in the Rain by Hanif Abdurraqib

She has gone on to found and direct Roxbury Writers Residency at her home in the Catskills.Īnnie was a Co-Founding Editor of Gigantic, a literary journal of short prose and art carried throughout the U.S. She brings to the Shipman Agency ten years of experience teaching at some of the country's leading creative writing programs including: Columbia University School of the Arts, Barnard, Bard, Bennington, Skidmore and The New School where she was nominated for a Distinguished Teaching Award.

She lives in Ridgewood, Queens with her husband, musician Paul Pimsler, and their dog Junie.Īnnie DeWitt, Literary Dewitt is a passionate writer, editor and literary liaison. She consulted at PEN America, a leading advocate for free expression, and worked on the PEN Literary Awards, and the PEN World Voices Festival.Ī poet with an MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, her work can be found in the Kenyon Review, BOMB, Tinderbox, Mid-American Review, Cosmonauts Avenue and elsewhere. She spent over a decade at the National Book Foundation, (which presents the National Book Award), where she was instrumental in creating events and programs such as 5 Under 35, a prize for promising young novelists, the National Book Awards After Party, Eat, Drink, and Be Literary at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Innovations in Reading, a prize that promotes community organizations working at the grassroots level to encourage reading across constituencies, and BookUp, an afterschool program for middle school age students, as well as assembling awards juries. Leslie Shipman, Shipman has spent 30 years promoting writers, and creating and managing literary events in New York City, from the National Book Awards Finalist Reading at the New School to Eat, Drink, and Be Literary at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Go Ahead in the Rain by Hanif Abdurraqib