Come ready to this reading series from Durham’s own Bull City Press for engaging poetry, fiction, and nonfiction from established and emerging writers.

May 9 at 6:00 pm (book signing at 5:45): Marnie Andrews & Chelsea Krieg with Golden Age Comedy

Marnie Andrews made most of her living in performing arts. She worked primarily as an actress in LA and NYC in theatre, TV, and film. Having worked in all genres of plays, from classical to experimental theatre, her heart always focused on the development of new work. She started directing in her thirties to have a stronger voice in collaboration with playwrights’ words. She taught at several universities—U of Southern CA Graduate Film, NYU, and U of Albany—and worked as guest artist in acting and directing at other universities. As a writer, she worked as a journalist, primarily for European magazines, traveling with her photographer/husband, Jeff Jacobson. She received a grant from the Berrilla Kerr Playwriting Award after submitting a one woman show Singer in the 1990s. She’s collaborated over with composers as a lyricist. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Says It Better, an anthology edited by Ellen Burstyn.

Chelsea Krieg is the author of Everything is Water, Virginia winner of the Southern Poetry Breakthrough Series (Texas Review Press, 2026). Her work may also be found in Fairy Tale Review, Writing the Land: Virginia Anthology, Terrain.org, Gulf Coast, New South, The Southern Poetry Anthology Vol. IX: Virginia, and elsewhere. She was runner-up in Hub City’s New Southern Voices 2023 Poetry Prize and a finalist for the New South 2021 Poetry Prize. Chelsea lives in Durham, NC and teaches creative writing at North Carolina State University where she also codirects the MFA Program.

Admission: Free!