Celebrate our nonprofit press with a poetry & pictures party in Pelham, MA! Enjoy Perugian-inspired cocktail bites & wine followed by short readings & a convo with our poets Holli Carrell (Apostasies, 2025) and Jenifer Browne Lawrence (Grayling, 2015). Beautiful botanical photographs by artist Shelley Kirkwood will be on display and for sale, with a portion of the proceeds going to Perugia Press. Check out Kirkwood’s website here to view her work.

Limited capacity event! Email editor@perugiapress.org to RSVP & receive address. Attendance limited to first 50 RSVPs.

Holli Carrell (she/they) is the author of Apostasies (Perugia Press, 2025), winner of the 2025 Perugia Press Prize. She holds a Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature and a Graduate Certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from the University of Cincinnati—where she was a 2024-2025 Taft Research Center Dissertation Fellow. Her poetry and prose have appeared in publications such as Fence, Gulf Coast, 32 Poems, The Cincinnati Review, Poetry Northwest, The Journal, Bennington Review, and Ninth Letter, among others. She currently lives in Cincinnati, Ohio. Apostasies is her first book.

Jenifer Browne Lawrence (she/her) is the author of two poetry collections: Grayling, winner of the Perugia Poetry Prize (Perugia Press, 2015), and One Hundred Steps from Shore (Blue Begonia Press, 2006). Recent work appears in About Place Journal, The Common, Inflectionist Review, Pithead Chapel, Water~Stone Review, and Willow Springs. She lives and writes in Shelburne Falls, MA.

Shelley Kirkwood (she/her) is an American photographer and writer whose work explores memory, place, and themes of transience depicted through the landscape. Deeply rooted in observation and attuned to the natural world, her practice blends fine art photography, literary sensibility, and curatorial insight to create images and essays that invite reflection on the intersection of the ephemeral and the enduring. Her work often begins with the act of transformation—distilling natural materials and moments into new forms that hold both presence and trace, using the medium not just as a process of documentation, but as a process of revealing, where light itself becomes both subject and object.