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

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

This month's readers: Sofia Belimova & Carol Edelstein

About the readers:

Sofia Belimova is a writer, editor, and artist based in Amherst, MA. She graduated from Amherst College in 2022, majoring in English. During her college years, she worked for The Common, a professional literary magazine at Amherst College, culminating in a year-long editorial fellowship. She is currently a project editor at Oxford University Press. Her current personal projects include short stories, a novel, and various mixed-media art pieces. 

Carol Edelstein is the founder of Gallery of Readers and the author of The World Is Round (Amherst Writers and Artists Press, 1994), The Disappearing Letters (Perugia Press, 2005), Past Repair (Simian Press, 2020) and the forthcoming Small Claims (71 very short stories). Her poetry, fiction, and essays have been published in numerous anthologies and literary magazines, including The Massachusetts Review, The Georgia Review, Alaska Quarterly Review and NOON. With Elizabeth George, she edits the flash fiction magazine Switch. She is a social worker in Northampton, where she lives with her husband Robin. An avid swimmer and sculler, she finds her way, whenever possible, into or onto open water.