Letters Festival Erotic Writing Event at Lucille's

Join us for readings on the erotic at Lucille's on November 12 with Danielle Pafunda, Genevieve Plunkett, Jay Morris, Nicole Hernandez! We cannot wait to present a night of readings & film that explore the erotic at Lucille's! Enjoy readings by Danielle Pafunda, Genevieve Plunkett, Jay Morris, & Nicole Hernandez, who will also present a short film. Danielle Pafunda is author of ten books of poetry and prose including the winner of the Saturnalia Poetry Prize chosen by Hoa Nguyen Along the Road Everyone Must Travel, Spite (The Operating System), The Book of Scab (Ricochet Editions), and The Dead Girls Speak in Unison (Bloof Books), recently translated into Spanish by Cristina Rivera Garza and published by Mexico City's Dharma Books. Pafunda teaches creative writing, worldbuilding, and literature at Rochester Institute of Technology and serves on the Board of Directors of Beneath the Wild Sky Foundation for the Arts. Genevieve Plunkett is the author of the story collection Prepare Her, and novels In the Lobby of the Dream Hotel and The Lonely Girl’s Vegetable Patch. A recipient of an O. Henry Award and The Sewanee Review’s Andrew Lytle Prize for best short story published in 2023, her work can be found in The Sewanee Review, New England Review, Write or Die, Southern Review, Story, Colorado Review, and Literary Hub. She lives in Vermont. Jay Morris is a poet and researcher living in Atlanta, GA. He has performed poetry across the Southeastern United States since being 17 years old. His work focuses primarily on lived experience, blackness, recovery narratives, loneliness, and the intersection of intergenerational trauma and racism. He represents a personal movement towards liberation from the white, heteronormative gaze, and hopes to contribute to a larger tradition of Black liberation. Nicole Hernandez (b. 1994) is a Dominican-American artist and cultural archivist based in Atlanta, Georgia. Working through film photography, directing, and writing, her practice traces the intimate intersections of sensuality, memory, vulnerability, and the human experience. Guided by a stream-of-consciousness approach, she moves between image, language, and feeling to document what is often left unspoken. An erotic writer, storyteller, and poet, Hernandez is drawn to the subtleties of connection, the poetry of everyday life, and the complexities of being human. Her work serves as both witness and archive, preserving fragments of life with honesty, intuition, and tenderness.