Literary Cleveland's Plum City Reading Series brings the country's most interesting and groundbreaking authors to Cleveland to highlight the work of independent publishers while thoughtfully curating celebratory evenings of literature and community.
Join us for our May reading at Loganberry Books featuring Chicago nonfiction writer Daisy Hernández, author of the bold new book Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth (Hogarth Press, 2026); Chicago fiction writer Sara Levine, author most recently of The Hitch (Roxane Gay Books, 2026); and local writer Daniel Moysaenko, author of the debut poetry collection Overtakelessness (Graywolf Press, 2026) and winner of the Academy of American Poets First Book Award.
This installment of the Plum City Reading Series will take place Wednesday, May 20 at Loganberry Books (13015 Larchmere in Cleveland. Doors open at 6:30 and reading begins at 7pm to be immediately followed by an afterparty at the Literary Cleveland Offices (13002 Larchmere).
NOTE: In keeping with our mission, to ensure diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility, the registration fee for this event is "Pay What You Can." We believe every writer, reader, storyteller, and literary enthusiast who wants to attend a Literary Cleveland event should be able to have that experience. "Pay What You Can" registration allows comfortable, affordable participation for everyone. We have suggested fees—you can pay one of them, or pay what you can. Your participation is the priority for us.
Daisy Hernández is the author of The Kissing Bug, winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and the inaugural title for the National Book Foundation’s Science + Literature Program. Her memoir, A Cup of Water Under My Bed, won Lambda Literary’s Dr. Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award and was a Publishing Triangle Award finalist. She co-edited the classic feminist anthology Colonize This! and is an associate professor of creative writing at Northwestern University. Her most recent book is Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth (Hogarth, 2026).
Sara Levine is the author of the novels The Hitch and Treasure Island!!! as well as a book of short stories called Short Dark Oracles. She chairs the Writing Program at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and teaches on Substack at Delusions of Grammar.
Daniel Moysaenko is the author of Overtakelessness (Graywolf Press, 2026), winner of the Academy of American Poets First Book Award. His poems, translations, and critical writing have appeared in Chicago Review, Harvard Review, The Iowa Review, The Nation, Poetry, The Poetry Review, and elsewhere. Raised in the Ukrainian diaspora, he lives in Ohio's Chagrin Valley.
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Literary Cleveland's Plum City Reading Series brings the country's most interesting and groundbreaking authors to Cleveland to highlight the work of independent publishers while thoughtfully curating celebratory evenings of literature and community.
Join us for our May reading at Loganberry Books featuring Chicago nonfiction writer Daisy Hernández, author of the bold new book Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth (Hogarth Press, 2026); Chicago fiction writer Sara Levine, author most recently of The Hitch (Roxane Gay Books, 2026); and local writer Daniel Moysaenko, author of the debut poetry collection Overtakelessness (Graywolf Press, 2026) and winner of the Academy of American Poets First Book Award.
This installment of the Plum City Reading Series will take place Wednesday, May 20 at Loganberry Books (13015 Larchmere in Cleveland. Doors open at 6:30 and reading begins at 7pm to be immediately followed by an afterparty at the Literary Cleveland Offices (13002 Larchmere).
NOTE: In keeping with our mission, to ensure diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility, the registration fee for this event is "Pay What You Can." We believe every writer, reader, storyteller, and literary enthusiast who wants to attend a Literary Cleveland event should be able to have that experience. "Pay What You Can" registration allows comfortable, affordable participation for everyone. We have suggested fees—you can pay one of them, or pay what you can. Your participation is the priority for us.
Daisy Hernández is the author of The Kissing Bug, winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and the inaugural title for the National Book Foundation’s Science + Literature Program. Her memoir, A Cup of Water Under My Bed, won Lambda Literary’s Dr. Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award and was a Publishing Triangle Award finalist. She co-edited the classic feminist anthology Colonize This! and is an associate professor of creative writing at Northwestern University. Her most recent book is Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth (Hogarth, 2026).
Sara Levine is the author of the novels The Hitch and Treasure Island!!! as well as a book of short stories called Short Dark Oracles. She chairs the Writing Program at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and teaches on Substack at Delusions of Grammar.
Daniel Moysaenko is the author of Overtakelessness (Graywolf Press, 2026), winner of the Academy of American Poets First Book Award. His poems, translations, and critical writing have appeared in Chicago Review, Harvard Review, The Iowa Review, The Nation, Poetry, The Poetry Review, and elsewhere. Raised in the Ukrainian diaspora, he lives in Ohio's Chagrin Valley.
