Join Terrain.org for an online reading featuring award-winning writers Katherine Larson, Andrew Furman, and Dorsía Smith Silva, hosted by Terrain.org nonfiction editor Elizabeth Dodd. The reading will be followed by a Q&A.

Registration for this online event is required. Zoom hosting generously provided by the University of Arizona.

  
Monday, September 29, 2025
5 p.m. PT / 6 MT / 7 CT / 8 ET

Katherine Larson is the author of Radial Symmetry (Yale University Press, 2011), winner of the Yale Younger Poets Prize; The Speechless Ones (Interlinea Press, 2016), which received the Vercelli International Civic Poetry Prize; and Wedding of the Foxes (Milkweed Editions, 2025). Her honors include a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, the Larry Levis Reading Prize, a Kate Tufts Discovery Award, an Arizona Commission on the Arts Research and Development Grant, and the Foreword Indies Gold Medal in Poetry. She is active with organizations and artists dedicated to conservation and environmental education in the Sonoran Desert and Upper Gulf of California.

Andrew Furman is a professor of English at Florida Atlantic University and teaches in its MFA program in creative writing. His fiction and creative nonfiction frequently engage with the Florida outdoors, but he has also written about Maine, Jewish identity, basketball, lighthouses, swimming, and cast iron cookware. His essays and stories have appeared in such publications as Prairie Schooner, Oxford American, The Southern Review, Santa Monica Review, Ecotone, Willow Springs, Poets & Writers, Terrain.org, Flyway, and The Florida Review. He is the author, most recently, of the environmental memoir, Of Slash Pines and Manatees: A Highly Selective Field Guide to My Suburban Wilderness (University Press of Florida, 2025), and The World That We Are (Regal House Publishing, 2025). Other books include Jewfish (Little Curlew Press, 2020), Goldens Are Here (Green Writers Press, 2018), and Bitten: My Unexpected Love Affair with Florida (University Press of Florida, 2014), which was named a finalist for the ASLE Environmental Book Award. He lives in south Florida with his family.

Dorsía Smith Silva is the author of In Inheritance of Drowning (CavanKerry, 2024), which was a category finalist for the National Indie Excellence Award, Eric Hoffer Award, Whirling Prize, and Da Vinci Eye Award; reviewed by Publishers Weekly; and recommended by Ms. Magazine. She is a poetry editor at The Hopper and full professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. Literary Hub, Poets.org, and The Los Angeles Review have published her work, and she has received fellowships and scholarships from Bread Loaf and the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. Dorsía is the author of Good Girl, editor of Latina/Chicana Mothering, and the co-editor of seven books. Looking to increase the visibility of poetry by BIPOC authors, she is the creator of the Smith Silva Challenge, which is a reading challenge that highlights poetry books by BIPOC authors. She has a Ph.D. in Caribbean Literature and Language.