Fostering community through the literary arts
A Reading with Writer-in-Residence Helen Betya Rubinstein & Bela Shayevich
Thu, Jun 20
|Iowa City
Join us for a reading and conversation with PorchLight writer in residence, Helen Betya Rubenstein, and Bela Shayevich
Time & Location
Jun 20, 2024, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Iowa City, 1019 E Washington St, Iowa City, IA 52240, USA
Guests
About the event
Helen Betya Rubinstein's essays and fiction have appeared in Gulf Coast, The Kenyon Review, Literary Hub, and Jewish Currents, where she is a contributing writer. She has received recent from the Watermill Foundation, the Mastheads, and the GIDEST program at The New School, most recently, for her work on several books-in-progress. Her book Feels Like Trouble: Transgressive Takes on Teaching, Writing, and Publishing is forthcoming, and her booklet of lyric fictions, Because Sex Is a Story & Sex Is a Song, is available.
Bela Shayevich is a Soviet-American writer and translator and recent graduate of the University of Iowa's MFA in Nonfiction Writing Program. Her latest book is Elena Kostyuchenko's I Love Russia, co-translated with Ilona Yabzhin. She is also the translator of Svetlana Alexievich's Secondhand Time, and Vsevolod Nekrasov's I Live I See (with Ainsley Morse). Her writing has appeared in n+1, Jewish Currents, and Harper's.