Reading, Q&A, and Book Signing with Sasha Debevec-McKenney

Portrait of poet Sasha Debevec-McKenney resting her chin on folded hands, looking toward the camera with a calm expression. She has curly highlighted hair and wears large clear-framed glasses. The background features soft green foliage and diagonal lines, creating a dreamy, artistic effect.

Reading, Q&A, and Book Signing with Sasha Debevec-McKenney

Thursday, July 2, 2026 - 7:30 p.m. ET

Appropriate for: All Audiences
The Writing House FREE, no tickets required

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Sasha Debevec-McKenney is the author of the poetry collection Joy Is My Middle Name, which won the 2026 Dylan Thomas Prize. She received her MFA from New York University. She was the 2020–2021 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin and a 2023-2025 Creative Writing Fellow at Emory University. Her poems have appeared in places like The New Yorker, The Yale Review, The Drift, and Granta. She was born in Hartford, Connecticut and is currently an Assistant Professor of Writing at Grand Valley State University.