Visiting Writers - Teo Shannon, Saddiq Dzukogi, and Alina Nguyen
Date and Time
- Friday, Oct 3, 2025 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Location
Francie & Finch Bookshop
130 S. 13th St.
Category
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Join us on Friday, October 3rd at 5:30 as we welcome talented writers Teo Shannon, Saddiq Dzukogi, and Alina Nguyen! Teo will be in conversation with Saddiq and Alina about his new book of poetry, A Chronology of Blood: Poems. Please see below to learn more about our guests. We can’t wait to see you there!
About the Book:
Teo Shannon’s debut collection of poetry casts an unflinching eye on the issues in the author’s life which includes themes of sexual abuse, gun violence, and conversion therapy. The poems in a chronology of blood embrace trauma survivors, the LGBTQ+ community, and lovers of poetry.
A stunning debut collection by a gifted poet, a chronology of blood explores major traumas in the author’s life. Autobiographical in nature, the book is broken into three sections that each deal with a trauma the author has endured, and it explores a range of themes including gun violence, conversion therapy, misuse of drugs, addiction, and domestic violence. But balancing the anger, harm, and pain is hope: above all Shannon is a survivor, learning to incorporate these experiences into a life filled with healing and lived on his own terms.
About the Writers:
Teo Shannon is a cofounder and a co-EIC of the literary journal Cotton Xenomorph. His poetry has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. He currently lives in Michigan.
Alina Nguyễn was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. She is the proud daughter of Vietnamese immigrants. She earned her B.A. in English Literature and Asian American Studies from the California State University, Northridge, and her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the California State University, Long Beach, where she was awarded the Gerald Locklin Writing Prize. Her risograph chapbook, Before There Were More Ghosts, was published by Tomorrow Today. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), where she was co-recipient of the inaugural Louis Crompton Prize. Her research interests include Poetics, Ethnic Literature, Queer Theory, and Printmaking. She is an Instructor of Record and Assistant Director of the Writing Center in the English Department at UNL.
Saddiq Dzukogi holds a degree in mass communication from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria (Nigeria), and is pursuing a PhD in English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. A 2017 finalist of the Brunel International African Poetry Prize, he is the author of Inside the Flower Room, selected by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani for the New Generation African Poets Chapbook series. Dzukogi’s poems have appeared in the Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Gulf Coast, World Literature Today, New Orleans Review, Oxford Poetry, African American Review, Best American Experimental Writing, and elsewhere.
