WordHouse Reading Series                                                                            

Wednesday April 15, 6PM

Denise Abercrombie & Joseph Reynolds

*Reading will begin with an Open Mic session.

Joseph Reynolds is a novelist, essayist, and professor, and the Founding Director of The Sancho Panza Literary Society, which holds writers’ residencies and workshops at Trinity College Dublin. He is the author of the novel Make Dust our Paper, which was reviewed by Washington Post best book award winner Da Chen as “An instant classic; a major new talent has arrived.” His novella Run it Once is forthcoming in 2026. He has taught college in New England, Washington, DC, and Ireland, and as an undergraduate, he was an intern and speechwriter in the U.S. Senate office of the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. He is the editor-in-chief of New Square Literary Magazine, and its featured essayist.

Denise Abercrombie’s work has appeared in Minnesota Review, Fireweed, Connecticut Review, Phoebe: Journal of Feminist Scholarship, Theory, and Aesthetics, Yale Global Health Review, Earth’s Daughters, English Journal, Waking Up to the Earth: Connecticut Poets in a Time of Global Climate Crisis, Writing on the Edge, and elsewhere. She helps coordinate Curbstone Foundation’s Poetry in the Julia de Burgos Park series in Willimantic. Denise teaches theater and creative writing at E.O. Smith High School, and lives in Storrs, CT.