Fire, Water, and Other Queer Subjects: The Sea Gives Up the Dead and Self Portrait of Icarus as a Country on Fire (in person & live-streaming)
June 22 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Debut author Molly Olguín will be in conversation with Jason Schneiderman about her story collection The Sea Gives Up the Dead and his book of poems Self Portrait of Icarus as a Country on Fire. Both authors will read from their work and answer audience questions.
To reserve a copy of The Sea Gives Up the Dead (Red Hen Press, April 29, 2025, paperback, $16.95) and/or Self Portrait of Icarus as a Country on Fire (Red Hen Press, August 13, 2024, paperback, $17.95), please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve book(s) for June 22 event” in the subject line and let us know which title(s) you’d like us to reserve in the body of the email.
Thank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us!
This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.
Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.
Also live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel:
The Bureau will solicit donations at the beginning of the event—we especially encourage donations from those who do not plan to purchase any books.
All are welcome to attend, with or without a donation.
We will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @BGSQD
Molly Olguín is a queer writer, educator, and monster enthusiast. Her debut collection The Sea Gives Up the Dead was selected by Carmen Maria Machado for the 2023 Grace Paley Prize, and is out now with Red Hen Press.
Jason Schneiderman is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Hold Me Tight (Red Hen, 2020), and including the forthcoming Self Portrait of Icarus as a Country on Fire (Red Hen, 2024). He edited the anthology Queer: A Reader for Writers (Oxford UP 2016). His poems and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. His awards include the Emily Dickinson Award, the Shestack Award and a Fulbright Fellowship. He is longtime co-host of the podcast Painted Bride Quarterly Slush Pile and a guest host for The Slowdown. He is Professor of English at the Borough of Manhattan Community College and teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.
