Women In/Out of/On Love: Reading and Concert

Saturday, February 20, 2010 | 8pm

Ever wondered what she felt about you? Three writers tell love’s dirty little secrets. Short story writers, Aja Gabel and Eleanor Henderson, and poet Molly Minturn will read recent work on the theme of love, in all its guises. Bluegrass band the Rock River Gypsies will perform a set. Light refreshments will be provided.

Aja Gabel’s short fiction can be found in the New England Review, the New Ohio Review, Slush Pile and the Southeast Review. She holds an MFA from the University of Virginia and a BA from Wesleyan University. She is an editorial intern at the Virginia Quarterly Review and teaches writing in Charlottesville.

Eleanor Henderson received her MFA from the University of Virginia in 2005. Her fiction has appeared in AGNI, Indiana Review, North American Review, Ninth Letter and Best American Short Stories 2009. A former contributing editor for Poets & Writers, she currently is the chair of
the fiction board at Virginia Quarterly Review and an assistant professor at James Madison University.

Molly Minturn was born in Massachusetts and studied poetry at the University of Virginia and Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She worked as an assistant editor at the Iowa Review and now is an associate editor at the Virginia Quarterly Review in Charlottesville. Her work has appeared in the Indiana Review.

Rock River Gypsies are a bluegrass/folk band that started out playing charity gigs for campus organizations and local venues, but of late the Gypsies have played at the Clearwater Festival in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., the Mountville Festival in Loudoun County, Va., and intimate venues all over the state of Virginia. Members have performed at ethnomusicology conferences, a royal visit from Queen Elizabeth II and contributed to film scores. More at www.myspace.com/therockrivergypsies.