Join us for a reading and signing with author and translator Ani Gjika for her new memoir An Unruled Body, winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing.

Where: Brookline Booksmith (279 Harvard St. Brookline, MA 02446)

When: 7:00pm on Tuesday, November 21st 2023

Albanian-born writer Ani Gjika is the author and literary translator of eight books and chapbooks of poetry, among them Bread on Running Waters (Fenway Press, 2013), a finalist for the 2011 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. Her translation from the Albanian of Luljeta Lleshanaku’s Negative Space (New Directions and Bloodaxe Books, 2018) won an English PEN Award and was shortlisted for the International Griffin Poetry Prize, PEN America Award, and Best Translated Book Award. She is a graduate of Boston University’s MFA program where she was a 2011 Robert Pinsky Global fellow, and GrubStreet’s Memoir Incubator program, where she was a 2019 Pauline Scheer Fellow. Having taught creative writing at various universities in the U.S. and Thailand, Gjika currently teaches English as a Second Language at Framingham High School in Massachusetts.

Shuchi Saraswat is a writer and editor based in Boston. Her essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, Michigan Quarterly Review, AGNI, Ecotone, Tin House and elsewhere. Her essay "The Journey Home" received a special mention in Pushcart XLII 2018 and is anthologized in Trespass: Ecotone Essayists Beyond the Boundaries of Place, Identity, and Feminism, published by Lookout Books (2019). Her fiction has received support from The Speculative Literature Foundation, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Art Omi, The Writers' Room of Boston, Tin House Summer Writers' Workshop, and Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.