NYWW @ UG is a monthly reading series featuring some of the region's, the nation's, and the world's most significant writers, presenting their work and taking your questions in the charming space of Brooklyn's Underland Gallery, located in Bay Ridge at 457 77th Street. For this reading, we present:

Stephen Policoff's 1st novel, Beautiful Somewhere Else, won the James Jones Award and was published by Carroll & Graf in 2004. His 2nd novel, Come Away, won the Dzanc Award and was published by Dzanc Books in 2014.  His 3rd novel, Dangerous Blues, was published by Flexible Press in November 2022.  He is Clinical Professor of Writing in Global Liberal Studies at NYU, where he has taught almost since time began.

Deedle Rodriguez Tomlinson was born and raised in the Philippines. Her work has appeared in the Silliman University Journal, TOMÁS: the Journal of the University of Santo Tomas Center for Creative Writing and Literary Studies, The Incompleteness Book Volumes I & II of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP), and in Wonderlust Travel. Recently, her short story, “The Babaylan,” appeared in Mom Egg Review.  where it was nominated for the PEN/Robert J. Dau Prize for Emerging Writers.

Tim Tomlinson is the author of the chapbook Yolanda: An Oral History in Verse, the poetry collection, Requiem for the Tree Fort I Set on Fire, and the short story collection, This Is Not Happening to You. Recent work appears in Live Encounters, Men Matters Online Journal, Tin Can Literary Review, and the anthology, Surviving Suicide: A Collection of Poems that May Save a Life. A new collection, Listening to Fish: meditations from the wet world, will appear on Nirala books later this year. Tim is the director of New York Writers Workshop, and co-author of its popular text, The Portable MFA in Creative Writing. He teaches writing in NYU’s Global Liberal Studies.