Posted on January 5, 2021
The MFA Writing Program at UNC Greensboro will host a fiction and poetry reading by Cortney Esco and Aaron Graham on Friday, February 5th at 7PM. A part of the MFA Writing Program’s 2021 Thesis Reading Series, this virtual event will be livestreamed via our YouTube channel. It is free and open to the public.
Cortney Esco is an MFA candidate in fiction at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her work has appeared in the Corn Creek Review, the Agnes Scott College Writers’ Festival Magazine where she was a finalist, and others. She was also a finalist for the Rita Dove Poetry Award, part of the Center for Women Writers’ 2020 International Literary Awards. Originally from a farm in Georgia, she now lives in an apartment with her rescue dog, Minnie, who is the best roommate anyone could ever have.
Aaron Graham is a veteran of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. His work has appeared in f(r)iction magazine, Scalawag: A Journal of the South, and Rising Phoenix Press, among others. He served as the editor-in-chief for the Squaw Valley Review, and is currently attending UNC Greensboro’s MFA program in poetry and finishing his Ph.D. at Emory University.
