Celebrate Graywolf's forty-five years of publishing history and toast to three of our literary stars on May 15

The 2019 Graywolf Literary Soirée will feature Carmen Maria Machado (Her Body and Other Parties; In the Dream House), Max Porter (Lanny; Grief Is the Thing With Feathers), and Tracy K. Smith (Wade in the Water; American Journal).

Join us for a brilliant evening featuring three of Graywolf's most influential and best-selling authors, with delicious passed appetizers, wine, and cocktails. As Graywolf looks back on forty-five years of adventurous publishing, help us celebrate becoming a destination press for some of the most ground-breaking writers of our time.

Single tickets are $275, and two or more tickets are $250 each ($75 of each ticket is not tax-deductible). Sponsorships are available starting at $1,000; to learn more, contact Rachel Fulkerson at fulkerson@graywolfpress.org. Tickets are available online through May 15; you can also purchase tickets at the door.

All proceeds support Graywolf Press, a nonprofit publisher committed to the discovery and energetic publication of twenty-first century American and international literature. Reserve your place today!

About the Authors

Carmen Maria Machado is the author of Her Body and Other Parties, which won the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize, and was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Kirkus Prize. It was also named a Best Book of 2017 by the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, ELLE, and others. Her memoir In the Dream House is one of Graywolf’s most anticipated releases of 2019 and will be published in November.

“Carmen Maria Machado has managed to have readers, critics and everyone in-between sitting on the edge of their seats. . . . Machado’s stories deal with the sometimes unbelievable reality of being a woman in a way you won’t see coming; in a way that is entirely her own.”—NBC “Today Show”
 

Max Porter is the author of Grief Is the Thing With Feathers, a novel beloved by readers and booksellers the world over, winner of the International Dylan Thomas Prize, and one of the New York Times Book Review’s 100 Notable Books of 2016. Grief Is the Thing With Feathers was adapted into a play that will premiere at the Barbican Theatre in London in March, followed by its US debut at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn in April. Porter’s highly-anticipated new novel Lanny will be published by Graywolf in May.

“Mr. Porter gives expression to grief in all its emotional manifestations. . . . Unpredictably playful, [filled] with sarcasm, absurdity and black-winged humor.”—The Wall Street Journal

 

Tracy K. Smith is currently in her second term as Poet Laureate of the United States, a role she has held since 2017. She is the author of Wade in the Water and the editor of American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time, which were both published by Graywolf last year. She is also the author of the poetry collections Life on Mars, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Duende, winner of the James Laughlin Award; and The Body’s Question, winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize; and a memoir, Ordinary Light, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. She is the host of American Public Media’s The Slowdown podcast, produced in partnership with the Library of Congress and the Poetry Foundation.

“Smith is the country’s poetic caretaker, calling both for collective reckoning and collective empathy.”—The Atlantic

Tickets are also available for our
Graywolf at 45 Literary Gala
in Minneapolis on September 26, 2019.