{"id":1777,"date":"2025-03-31T13:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T17:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kratz\/?p=1777"},"modified":"2025-08-22T12:29:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:29:40","slug":"spring-2025-blueprint-reading-series-abby-mei-otis-and-aaron-coleman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kratz\/spring-2025-blueprint-reading-series-abby-mei-otis-and-aaron-coleman\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring 2025 Blueprint Reading Series: Abby Mei Otis and Aaron Coleman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kratz\/files\/2025\/03\/25529-16636_Blueprint_AaronColeman_AbbeyMeiOtis_poster-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1778 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kratz\/files\/2025\/03\/25529-16636_Blueprint_AaronColeman_AbbeyMeiOtis_poster-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2200\" height=\"3400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kratz\/files\/2025\/03\/25529-16636_Blueprint_AaronColeman_AbbeyMeiOtis_poster-1.png 2200w, https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kratz\/files\/2025\/03\/25529-16636_Blueprint_AaronColeman_AbbeyMeiOtis_poster-1-194x300.png 194w, https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kratz\/files\/2025\/03\/25529-16636_Blueprint_AaronColeman_AbbeyMeiOtis_poster-1-663x1024.png 663w, https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kratz\/files\/2025\/03\/25529-16636_Blueprint_AaronColeman_AbbeyMeiOtis_poster-1-768x1187.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kratz\/files\/2025\/03\/25529-16636_Blueprint_AaronColeman_AbbeyMeiOtis_poster-1-994x1536.png 994w, https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kratz\/files\/2025\/03\/25529-16636_Blueprint_AaronColeman_AbbeyMeiOtis_poster-1-1325x2048.png 1325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2200px) 100vw, 2200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Kratz Center is proud to present its Spring 2025 Blueprint Reading Series guests:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abbey Mei Otis <\/strong>is a writer, a teaching artist, a storyteller, and a firestarter. Her short story collection,\u00a0<em>Alien Virus Love Disaster,\u00a0<\/em>was named one of the best books of the year by\u00a0<em>The Washington Post\u00a0<\/em>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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aaron Coleman\u00a0<\/strong>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, <em>Threat Come Close,\u00a0<\/em>won the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award.<\/p>\n<p>Curated by <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kratz\/edgar-kunz\/\">Edgar Kunz<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kratz Center is proud to present its Spring 2025 Blueprint Reading Series guests: Abbey Mei Otis is a writer, a teaching artist, a storyteller, and a firestarter. Her short story collection,\u00a0Alien Virus Love Disaster,\u00a0was named one of the best books of the year by\u00a0The Washington Post\u00a0and was a finalist for the 2018 Phillip K. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kratz\/spring-2025-blueprint-reading-series-abby-mei-otis-and-aaron-coleman\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spring 2025 Blueprint Reading Series: Abby Mei Otis and Aaron Coleman<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[330],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kratz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kratz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kratz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kratz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kratz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1777"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kratz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1870,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kratz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions\/1870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kratz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kratz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kratz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}