Lit at Lark Debut Novelists Night! Featuring Rachel Cantor, Carley Moore, Helen Wan, and Henriette Lazaridis Power

January's Lit at Lark features a fantastic foursome of powerful, wise, witty women. As always, the event is free, Lark will offer a Happy Hour drink special just for us, and WORD will be selling books written by and recommended by our authors. Readings are followed by an informal, salon-style chat. Come on out -- you know you want to show off the new scarves you got for Christmas anyway...

RACHEL CANTOR is the author of the novel A Highly Unlikely Scenario, or a Neetsa Pizza Employee’s Guide to Saving the World, forthcoming from Melville House in January 2014. Her stories have appeared in magazines such as the Paris Review, One Story, Ninth Letter, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Fence, and Volume 1 Brooklyn. She freelance as a writer for nonprofits that work in developing countries, and has worked everywhere from Azerbaijan to Zimbabwe (most recently in Nigeria, Senegal, and India).

HELEN WAN is an author and lawyer. Her debut novel, THE PARTNER TRACK, was released by St. Martin’s Press on September 17, 2013. She is now at work on a second novel. 

CARLEY MOORE grew up in Jamestown, a small, snowy city in upstate New York. She is the author of the young adult novel, The Stalker Chronicles, which was published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux in March 2012. Carley is also a poet, whose work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Aufgabe, The Birdsong Collective, The Blue Letter, Coconut, Conduit, Connotation Press, Fence, Linebreak, and Painted Bride Quarterly. Carley’s a full-time faculty member in the Liberal Studies Program at New York University, where she teaches writing. Carley lives with her daughter in New York City.

HENRIETTE LAZARIDIS POWER has degrees in English Literature from Middlebury College; Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar; and the University of Pennsylvania. She taught English literature at Harvard for ten years. Her work has appeared in Narrative Magazine, New England Review, the New York Times online, The Millions, the Huffington Post, and elsewhere, and she was the recipient of a 2006 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artists Grant. In 2010, she launched The Drum, a literary magazine publishing exclusively in audio form. Her debut novel The Clover House was a Boston Globe best-seller and a Target Emerging Authors selection for April 2013.