BLR’s latest issue is on “Body Politic,” featuring stories, essays, and poems on the intersection of our bodies and society.

Join us Thursday, October 17th to meet three writers from this special issue—Mehr-Afarin Kohan, Laura LeMoon, and Sean Sam—who will read from their work, as well as be interviewed by BLR editors Danielle Ofri, Alanna Weissman, and Saleem Hue Penny.

This event is free and open to the public. RSVP for the link. (You can RSVP even if you can't make the exact date/time of the event, as the link will stay active afterward.)

Get your copy of BLR's special theme issue on "Body Politic"—print or digital—from the BLR store.

About the participants:

Mehr-Afarin Kohan is a Toronto-based writer. Her fiction appears in the Missouri Review, the Citron Review, the Los Angeles Review, the Malahat Review and Necessary Fiction. Her flash fiction was selected for Best Small Fictions 2021. Born in Tehran, Iran, she immigrated to Canada as a teenager. She is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst by profession.

Laura LeMoon is a former sex worker, trafficking survivor, and activist. Her work appears in HuffPost, Salon, the Rumpus, Seattle Times, Insider, and the Daily Beast. She lives in Seattle with her rescue pup, Coco Bean.

Sean Sam is a member of the Navajo Nation and an MFA candidate at Cornell University, where he won the George Harmon Coxe Fiction Prize. His writing appears in Joyland, Salt Hill, and the Malahat Review. He is currently working on his first novel.