Gallery of Readers presents a monthly reading. Free and open to the public. 

Since 1994, Gallery of Readers Press has published books by established and emerging writers from Western Massachusetts. Each year since 1991, up to 24 writers have read their work in the Gallery of Readers series. 

Prose writer, teacher, and storyteller, Jennifer Jacobson’s work has been published in the Master's Review, Chronogram, Linea, Switch, jubilat, Storyteller Magazine and elsewhere. Her stories received honorable mentions from Glimmer Train, Hunger Mountain, Symphony Space, and the Tennessee Williams Festival. Born in Zomba, Malawi, Jennifer now lives in western Massachusetts and works at UMass Amherst. She served as the Associate Director of the MFA for Poets and Writers and the Director of the Juniper Summer Writing Institutes from 2014 to 2022. She is currently the English Department’s Director of Community Engagement. Her favorite summer activity (after baking berry pies) is teaching creative writing at Smith’s pre-college program which she has been delighted to do since 2014.

Leo Hwang’s work has appeared in Human Being & Literature, Meat for Tea, The Massachusetts Review, Glimmer Train Stories, Fiction, Gulf Coast, and other literary magazines. He was the recipient of the Rosselli/de Filippis Scholarship at the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference and has been awarded scholarships to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Mr. Hwang received his B.A. in English and Fine Arts from the University of the South, and an M.F.A. in fiction from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and received his Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts in Geosciences with a focus on the diverse community economies of artists and artisans in Franklin County. Mr. Hwang is currently the Associate Dean of Inclusive Excellence in the College of Natural Sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He also plays guitar in two bands, Vimana and The Warblers, and bass in the Original Cowards.

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