We’re excited to announce our November Personal Velocity lineup: Jessica Scicchitano, Tree Abraham, and Ebs Sanders.

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

Accessibility note: Personal Velocity is held in the basement workshop space at H&H Books, which is down a flight of stairs.

About the Authors:

Jessica Scicchitano is a graduate of the MFA program in Creative Writing at Syracuse University and considers Philadelphia home. After a ten year break in writing she began At What Cost, a reading series and curatorial project that attempts to acknowledge the toll our avoidance takes. You can learn more about her at atwhatcost.me. 

Ebs Sanders is co-editor of the tiny and the author of Low Ecstasies (Blush Lit, 2025) Intimacies that did not destroy us (Bottlecap Press, 2022) and A Fallow Channel (Gauss PDF, 2020). Their work can be found in Asterion Projects, bæst, bedfellows, Full Stop, The Rumpus and Tripwire, among others. They are one of ten 2025 Convent Arts fellows.

Tree Abraham is an Ottawa-born, Brooklyn-based writer, art director, and book designer. Her authorship experiments with fragmented essay and mixed media visuals. She is the author of two creative nonfiction books: Cyclettes (a New York Times editor’s choice, published by Unnamed Press, 2022) and elseship (Indie Next pick, published by Soft Skull Press, 2025).