Writers Tom Pappalardo and Phyllis St. George will read and discuss their work as part of the Readers & Writers Live series.

This event will also be livestreamed on the Forbes Library YouTube channel. Click here to view.

About the writers: 

Tom Pappalardo is an author, graphic designer, and musician living in western Massachusetts. He has published four books: Everything You Didn’t Ask For, a comic collection, One More Cup of Coffee, a collection of humor essays, Broken Lines, an illustrated novel, and Satellites, a sci-fi short story collection and released four albums with his guitar/drum duo The Demographic. He lives in a manky old house and drives a janky old car. Learn more at tompappalardo.com.

Phyllis St. George is a lesbian poet, writer, and filmmaker living in Western Massachusetts. Her short story, “View from the Watchtower,” is featured in Anthology 5 of Running Wild Press. Her poetry has appeared in the Hiram Poetry Review and Sinister Wisdom. Her villanelle, “Last-Minute Temptation,” won 3rd Place in the 2019 Palm Beach Poetry Festival Tech Effect Poetry Contest. She produced and directed two short films, Plastics and The Therapy Killings, which were accepted at the Downtown Boca Festival and the Outside the Box Bakersfield Film Festival, respectively. Her short film Plastics won an Award of Merit for her leading actor in the March 2011 Best Shorts Competition. Her digital artwork “Monsters in the Deep” is found in the Bonemilk Collective Vol II by Gutslut Press.