Hopscotch at Lisbeth: Poetry Reading with Tracy Fuad and Matt Rader followed by a discussion with Ryan Ruby

Tracy Fuad’s second book of poetry, PORTAL (University of Chicago, 2024) won the 2023 Phoenix Emerging Poets Prize. A 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, Fuad’s poems have appeared in The Paris Review, The Yale Review and The New Republic and have been translated into Kurdish, Turkish, German, and Spanish. She lives in Berlin, where she teaches poetry and directs the Berlin Writers’ Workshop.

Matt Rader is the author of six collections of poems, a book of stories, and a work of experimental nonfiction. His most recent collection is Fine (Nightwood Editions 2024). He teaches Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia Okanagan and lives in Kelowna, BC, Canada. 

Ryan Ruby is the author of The Zero and the One: A Novel and Context Collapse, forthcoming from Seven Stories Press in November 2024. For his essays and reviews, which have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper's, and elsewhere he received the Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism. He lives in Berlin.