Join us 1/13 for SIDEWALK CHALK, a reading hosted by AIDEN BROWN. Readers will include SIENA FOSTER-SOLTIS, LILY ABBITT, MELISSA NILES, SUMMER BENOWITZ, and KAIULANI LEE. The event will include art prints and zines for sale as well as live readings of poetry and prose!
SIENA FOSTER-SOLTIS is a playwright from the San Fernando Valley. She has shown work with New Arts Foundation, 2220 Arts + Archives, NPU, The Elysian Theater, Revisionist NYC, Stevenson Blanche and Coffeehouse Theater at Calarts. She is 5 feet and 6 inches tall and is published in some places too a wee tiny bit.
MELISSA NILES is a writer from the suburbs of LA, now based in the city. Previous works can be found in FEM Newsmagazine, as well as the zine project YOUTH CULTURE 2000 that she cofounded.
SUMMER BENOWITZ is the founder and current co-head editor of the new la-based culture magazine, CUSPER. A screenwriter and director first and foremost, Summer has placed as a finalist with Screencraft Animation, Script Pipeline, and the Sundance Episodic Labs, while her short film “There Are Mermaids in LA” premiered last year at the Dances with Films Festival and is now available online through Film Shortage.
KAIULANI ELLINGTON LEE Kaiulani Ellington Lee is a New York City-based writer and actress. She’s currently working on her forthcoming magazine and salon series. She’s been published by Dream Boy Book Club and you can catch her on Netflix in the reality series My Unorthodox Life.
LILY ABBITT is a seamstress and play write based in LA who recently wrote and directed a musical called Windy City. The poems she will read are inspired by growing up on the grungy coast of Southern California. She’s also part of an independent publishing collective called desire fx ran out of Santa Barbara and LA, and spends most of her time working on embroidery.
AIDEN “A.J.” BROWN is a Chicago-born, LA-based writer, multimedia artist, and Aquarius rising. Their debut poetry collection, THE APPLE HOUSE, is available now. Their work has appeared in Hobart Pulp, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Dream Boy Book Club, Heaven Magazine, and Swamp Spit among others. Their Bachelor-inspired murder mystery received the T. Paulo Urcanse Literary Excellence Prize from High Horse Magazine.
