We are SO excited to share our August Personal Velocity lineup, featuring Jamie Hood, Stephanie Cawley, and Olga Mikolaivna.

Organized by Katie Bennett, Personal Velocity is a monthly reading series featuring personal essays by writers who identify as women and nonbinary.  The series will run every month from Aug '25 - Aug '26, thanks to a generous grant from Penn Treaty Special Services District.

Stephanie Cawley is a poet in Philadelphia. They are the author of No More Flowers (Birds, LLC) and My Heart But Not My Heart (Slope Editions). Recent poems and prose have been published in Protean, The Offing, Prolit, and the tiny. More at stephaniecawley.com.

olga mikolaivna was born in Kyiv and works in the (intersectional/textual) liminal space of photography, word, translation, and installation. Her debut chapbook cities as fathers is out with Tilted House, and “our monuments to Southern California,” she calls them is forthcoming with Ursus Americanus Press. Her translation of Stanislav Belsky's first full length collection in English will be out with Dialogos / Lavender Ink. Other works can be found in mercury firs, Literary Hub, Cleveland Review of Books, Black Sun Lit, and elsewhere.

Jamie Hood is the author, most recently, of Trauma Plot: A Life, as well as the hybrid pandemic diary how to be a good girl and regards, marcel, a semi-monthly Proust-infused newsletter. She lives in Brooklyn.