THE LIT AT LARK SEASON ONE GRAND FINALE: Literary superstars Julia Fierro, Julie Sarkissian, and Ed Park!

It has been an astounding first season of KWT's own reading series. From celebrated veterans like Darin Strauss, Fiona Maazel, and Joanna Hershon, to standout debuts like Rachel Cantor, Nathan Oates, Amy Brill, Helen Wan, and so many more, we have met and listened to and chatted with some serious literary greatness since September. Now, before summer gets really languid, let's close our first season with a bang! And by that we mean of course, three amazing fiction writers.

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 hosted by local novelist Amy Shearn and followed by an informal, salon-style chat.

Julia Fierro's debut novel, Cutting Teeth was published by St. Martin’s Press in March 2014. She founded The Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop in 2002. Her work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Guernica Magazine, The Millions, Poets & Writers, HTMLGiant and other publications. She is graduate of The Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Teaching-Writing Fellow, and has taught literature and creative writing in the Honors Program at Hofstra University, and at the University of Iowa. Visit her website at juliafierro.com.

Julie Sarkissian was born in Los Angeles and raised in Orange County, California. She is a graduate of Princeton University where she won the Francis Lemoyne Page Prize for writing and studied with Joyce Carol Oates, Chang-Rae Lee and Edmund White. She received a MFA in fiction from The New School. Her first novel, Dear Lucy, was published by Simon & Schuster in April 2013. She lives in Brooklyn Heights, teaches writing for Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop and manages a Tribeca Restaurant.

Ed Park is the author of the novel Personal Days, a founding editor of The Believer, and has worked as an associate editor for The Poetry Foundation and an editor at The Voice Literary Supplement. He is now the literary editor at Amazon Publishing.