“Semester’s final Cinder Skies to feature poet Dede Cummings and Lindsey Gallagher” by Storm Huryk

Join Cinder Skies in supporting the Flagstaff literature community.

These local readings invite readers to interact with authors, ask questions or hang around to connect with other readers and writers. Four amazing authors have collaborated with Cinder Skies so far this year – Laura Brady and Danielle Geller shared beautifully braided essays over a zoom call in October, then Erica Peterson and Margo Steines explored deep and dark experiences of all kinds of relationships in November. Each new tale held a resonating truth connecting memories to the way life is lived.

The final reading of the semester will be held on Thursday, December 7th at 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Join in person at NAU’s Liberal Arts lecture hall, room 136, or zoom in, meeting ID: 894 0792 9578, password: 236771. The reading will feature Dede Commings and NAU MFA student Lindsey Gallagher.

Dede Cummings is a poet, author, and publisher. Her poetry has been published in Mademoiselle, Connotation Press, MomEgg Review, Green Mountains Review, and others. In 2013, she was a poetry contributor at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and in 2016, she was the recipient of a writer’s grant from the Vermont Studio Center. Her first poetry collection, To Look Out From, won the 2016 Homebound Publications Poetry Prize. Her second poetry book, The Meeting Place, came out in 2020 from Salmon Poetry. Dede is the founder and publisher of Green Writers Press in Brattleboro, Vermont.

Lindsey Gallagher is a non-binary nonfiction writer from Shelter Island, New York. They are currently pursuing their MFA at Northern Arizona University. They serve as the Editor-in-Chief of Thin Air Magazine and teach both creative writing and English Composition. Their work can be found in The Oval, The Palhouse Review, and Freetrail. Lindsey is currently at work on their thesis about their hometown and family.

If you can’t make it out, keep an eye on the instagram page @nau_mfa for more readings sprouting with spring.

Storm Huryk is a queer, genderfluid writer currently based out of Flagstaff. They are about to graduate from NAU with a BA in creative writing and minor in Women and Gender Studies. She volunteered at the Northern Arizona book festival, and he is an editor for the new literary magazine QueerPunk.