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:

Claudia Serea is a Romanian-born poet with poems and translations published in Field, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, The Puritan, Oxford Poetry, and elsewhere. She is the author of seven poetry collections, most recently In Those Years, No One Slept (Broadstone Books, 2023) and Writing on the Walls at Night (Unsolicited Press, 2022). Serea won the Joanne Scott Kennedy Memorial Prize from the Poetry Society of Virginia, the New Letters Readers Award, and the Franklin-Christoph Award. Her poems have been translated in French, Italian, Russian, Arabic, and Farsi, and featured on The Writer’s Almanac. She is a founding editor of National Translation Month, serves on the board of The Red Wheelbarrow Poets, and co-hosts their monthly readings.

Chris Campanioni was born in Manhattan in 1985 and grew up in a very nineties New Jersey. The son of exiles from Cuba and Poland, Chris is a writer, multimedia artist, and instructor.  He is a recipient of the International Latino Book Award for his debut novel, Going Down (Aignos, 2013), the Pushcart Prize for a selection of his cross-genre collection Death of Art (C&R Press, 2016), and the Academy of American Poets College Prize. His essays, poetry, and fiction have been translated into Spanish and Portuguese, and have found a home in several venues, including Best American Essays (HarperCollins, 2022), BOMB, Catapult, Social Text, Los Angeles Review of Books, American Poetry Review, Fence, Ambit, Nat. Brut, Kenyon Review, Denver Quarterly, Gulf Coast, Tupelo Press Quarterly, Hayden’s Ferry Review, 3:AM Magazine, DIAGRAM, Poetry International, Prelude, RHINO, Gorse, and other journals, anthologies, and edited volumes, including Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era (Routledge, 2019), Manticore: Hybrid Writing from Hybrid Identities (Sundress, 2019), Open House: Conversations with Writers About Community (Tupelo Press, 2023) Migration, Dislocation and Movement on Screen (Berghahn Books, 2023), and Transmedia Selves: Identity and Persona Creation in the Age of Mobile and Multiplatform Media (Routledge, 2023). His translations have been published in Beginnings of the Prose Poem: All Over The Place (Commonwealth Books, 2021), his multimedia work has been exhibited at the New York Academy of Art, and the film adaptation of his poem This body’s long (& I’m still loading) was in the official selection at the Canadian International Film Festival. From 2016 until 2021, he edited PANK and PANK Books, launching PANK’s Folio series in 2019 and its translation imprint, Transmission, in 2021. He is a Visiting Lecturer in the English department at Baruch College.

Sarah Sarai’s poetry books/chaps include The Future is Happy (Blaze VOX [books]); I Feel Good (Beard of Bees Press); The Risen Barbie (Dusie Kollektiv); Geographies of Soul and Taffeta (Indolent Books); That Strapless Bra in Heaven (Kelsay Books) & others. Individual poems and stories are in The Southampton Review, New Ohio Review, McQueens Quinterly, Boston Review, and others. She holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, and works as an idependent editor-for-hire.