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Megan Malachi NO LACE FRONTS IN IOWA CITY
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No Lace Fronts in Iowa City: poems
In her debut collection, No Lace Fronts in Iowa City, Meghan Malachi explores how community, desirability, and notions of home influence the journeys by which girls come of age. These poems celebrate a South Bronx childhood and navigate a complicated womanhood in the Midwest through confessional musings on Black Latinx identity and intimate epistolary interludes. Favorite wigs, main character moments, and reimagined anti-heroines are all vessels for exploring girlhood in this love letter to female kinship. No Lace Fronts in Iowa City is ultimately a testament to the desires for belonging and tenderness that we all harbor.
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Meghan Malachi, No Lace Fronts In Iowa City
Meghan Malachi’s debut collection, NO LACE FRONTS IN IOWA CITY (Madville Publishing) explores how community, desirability, and notions of home influence the journeys by which girls come of age. Favorite wigs and reimagined anti-heroines make appearances in this love letter to female kinship.The book publishes in June, and Dawn Tefft and Tracy Zeman will join Megan for a live reading and discussion. Followed by a book-signing.
Presenters

DAWN TEFFT
Dawn Tefft's books include Once Upon a Riot (Match Factory Editions), Gosling (Anhinga Press), Fist (Dancing Girl Press), and Field Trip to My Mother and Other Exotic Locations (Mudlark). Her poems appear in Bennington Review, Denver Quarterly, and Fence. She earned a PhD in English at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, volunteers as an editor for Packingtown Review, and works as a union representative in Chicago.

Tracy Zeman
Tracy Zeman is the author of Interglacial (Parlor Press 2026) and Empire (Parlor Press 2020). Writing at the intersection of ecology and culture, habitat and habitation, Tracy Zeman’s work traverses environmental crises, documents endangered and disappeared species, and mediates the moral and ethical implications of this age of ecological unraveling. She teaches writing at the University of Michigan and currently lives outside Detroit, Michigan, with her husband, daughter, and dog, where she hikes and bird watches in all seasons. In 2027, she’ll visit the Arctic Circle with 30 other artists and scientists.
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Bookends & Beginnings
Eclectic indie store in the heart of downtown Evanston. New & used books and gifts. With an outstanding cookbook section and kids’ books in foreign languages.
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