UPWords May 8, 2009

UPWords is a monthly reading series held on the 2nd Friday of every month (September thru May) in the Union Project’s Atrium. This free event features both local and nationally-acclaimed writers. Coffee is provided by the Union Project’s Youth Barista Program in concert with Starbucks and snacks are sponsored by Whole Foods.

Lalita Nahorona- Fiction
A native of India, Lalita Noronha came to the US on a Fulbright travel grant and earned her Ph.D. in microbiology. She is a widely published scientist, poet and fiction writer. Where Monsoons Cry is her debut collection of short stories. Lalita won the Maryland Literary Short Story Award) and a Maryland Individual Artist Award. Currently working on a novel, she is a fiction editor for the Baltimore Review, and a science teacher at St. Paul’s School for Girls.

Sharon McDermott
Author of the chapbooks Voluptuous and Alley Scatting, poet Sharon McDermott is the recipient of both an artist award from The Pittsburgh Foundation and a PA Council on the Arts grant. Her poems have been published in Prairie Schooner, Pearl, The Southern Poetry Review, The Seneca Review and other journals.

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