The Kratz Center is proud to present its 2025 Blueprint Reading Series guests:
Abbey Mei Otis is a writer, a teaching artist, a storyteller, and a firestarter. Her short story collection, Alien Virus Love Disaster, was named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post and was a finalist for the 2018 Phillip K. Dick Award. She has received fellowships and residencies from MacDowell, Tin House, Millay Arts, the Vermon Studio Center, and the McKnight Foundation.
Aaron Coleman is a poet, translator, educator, and scholar of the African Diaspora. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, Cave Canem, the Fulbright program, and the American Literary Translators Association. His debut poetry collection, Threat Come Close, won the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award.
Curated by Edgar Kunz.
