Join us for a very, very special Poetry & Pie this month. It will be full of laughter and tears and champagne. And, of course, pie. See you there ❤️

Nicole is a writer and baker. She is the 2023 LMNL Poetry Broadside Contest winner with her poem, “The Bridge.” Additionally, her poem “Embodiment” was the 2021 Words and Music Writing Contest co-runner-up. “Mortgage” appeared in the 2019 New Poetry From the Midwest (New American Press) and won third place in the 2016 Women’s National Book Association Writing Contest. Kirkus Reviews selected her debut collection, I Am One of You (Mississippi Sound Publishing, 2016), as a featured book in their Indie category. Originally from Ohio, Nicole co-owns Windowsill Pies, a Southern-style pie and tart company in New Orleans, where she lives with her husband and daughter.

Andy Young's second full-length collection, Museum of the Soon Departed, was chosen for the inaugural Patricia Spears Jones Award and will be published by Camperdown NYC. She is also the author of All Night It Is Morning (Diálogos Press, 2014) and four chapbooks. She holds an MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and teaches at New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. Her work has recently appeared, or is forthcoming, in such journals as The Southern Review, Pank, and The Journal of the American Medical Association. Her translations from the Arabic, with Khaled Hegazzi, were included in the Norton anthology Language for a New Century.

Gina Ferrara lives and writes in New Orleans. She has five poetry collections including her latest, Amiss. Her work has appeared in numerous journals including Callaloo, The Poetry Ireland Review and Tar River Poetry. Since 2007, she has curated The Poetry Buffet, a monthly reading series in New Orleans.

In her vivid and intimate memoir, Planting Dandelions: Field Notes from a Semi-Domesticated Life, Kyran Pittman opens her front door and walks us through the first twelve years in the life of a family. Through it all, she offers moving and hopeful musings on parenting and marriage and more. The result is an extraordinary book about ordinary life.