Read Queer All Year Backyard Reading Series

Grab your picnic blankets and lawn chairs and join us for the final installment of our Read Queer All Year Backyard Reading Series in partnership with Indiana Humanities! Every month we pair queer writers in different genres for a free reading in the backyard of the Nicholson house. For August, we welcome Rachel Cochran and Sylvia Thomas!

ABOUT RACHEL COCHRAN

Rachel Cochran was raised in Texas and received her PhD in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She currently teaches literature and creative writing at UNL and is also an assistant editor of Machete, an imprint of Ohio State University Press. Her short stories and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in The Rumpus, The Masters Review, and have won the New Ohio Review’s nonfiction contest.

ABOUT SYLVIA THOMAS

Sylvia Thomas is a poet and artist from Indianapolis, Indiana. For the last ten years, Sylvia has been sharing her poetry for the stage through her lens as a Queer, Transgender, and Intersex Hoosier. She’s performed her work across the Midwest, the East Coast, World Pride, EuroGames, the United Nations, the United States Capitol, and the Danish Parliament. She has three self-published works of poetry titled, DIVINE (2018), Twirl: A Collection of Poetry by a Queer and Transgender Hoosier (2021), and VIGIL (2023).