’Pemi Aguda, Jai Chakrabarti, and Garrard Conley

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AND LIVE STREAMING | ’Pemi Aguda, Jai Chakrabarti, and Garrard Conley will read from their recent books as part of the Writers Reading series.

’Pemi Aguda is from Lagos, Nigeria. Her debut collection of stories, Ghostroots, was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award. Her debut novel, One Leg on Earth, is forthcoming from W.W. Norton in May 2026.

Jai Chakrabarti is the author of the novel A Play for the End of the World, which won the National Jewish Book Award for debut fiction, was a finalist for the Rabindranath Tagore Prize, and was long-listed for the PEN/Faulkner Award. He is also the author of the story collection A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness. His stories have won two O. Henry Prizes, a Pushcart Prize, and have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories.

Garrard Conley is the author of the memoir Boy Erased (Riverhead/Penguin, 2016), a New York Times bestseller adapted into a major motion picture, and the novel All the World Beside (Riverhead/Penguin, 2024). He is the co-creator of the podcast UnErased and an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Kennesaw State University. His work has appeared in the Oxford American, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Time, among others, and he has held residencies at MacDowell and Yaddo. Photo by Brandon Taylor.