January Watershed Reading | Arts + Literature Laboratory | Madison Contemporary Arts Center

January Watershed Reading

Join us on Saturday, January 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM for our January Watershed Reading featuring Grace Jung, Ayokunle Falomo, and Patrycja Humienik. Followed by a short Q&A, the authors will be signing and selling their books.

Portrait of the author

Grace Jung is an internationally-touring stand-up comedian, writer, filmmaker, scholar and podcaster. She is the author of K-Drama School with appearances on NPR, The Bechdel Cast, The SteeBeeWeeBee Show, They Call Us Bruce and TBS. Grace and her work are featured in Offing Magazine, Literary Hub, Time, Publishers Weekly, Asymptote, The Economist, NBC and LA Review of Books. Grace is currently an Assistant Professor of Korean Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 

Portrait of author in blue and orange shirt, smiling

Ayokunle Falomo is Nigerian, American, and the author of Autobiomythography of (Alice James Books, 2024), AFRICANAMERICAN’T (FlowerSong Press, 2022), a recipient of fellowships from Vermont Studio Center, MacDowell, and the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program. He lives in Houston, TX.

Photo of author wearing black and green, crouching in front of a green backdrop of foliage

Patrycja Humienik, daughter of Polish immigrants, is a writer, editor, and performance artist. She has developed writing + movement workshops for the Henry Art Gallery, Arts+Literature Laboratory, Northwest Film Forum, in prisons, and elsewhere. An MFA candidate at UW-Madison, she serves as Events Director for The Seventh Wave, where she is also an editor for the Community Anthologies project. Patrycja grew up in Evanston, Illinois, and lives in Madison, Wisconsin. She is the author of We Contain Landscapes, out from Tin House in March 2025.

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Arts + Literature Laboratory is located at 111 S. Livingston Street #100, Madison, Wisconsin, 53703.

Our galleries are open Tuesday through Friday 10am-5pm and Saturday noon to 5pm, and other programs take place throughout the week. Please check the events calendar and education section for details.

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