Saturday, September 6th
11am CT – Grace Place Stage

April Gibson is a poet, writer, and professor whose work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Rhino, Prairie Schooner and elsewhere. Her poetry collection The Span of a Small Forever (Amistad/HarperCollins, 2024) was shortlisted for a Chicago Review of Books Award and first runner-up for Chicago Reader’s Best of Chicago. April is a recipient of The Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award, and she has received grants, fellowships, or residencies from the Poetry Foundation, Tin House, Callaloo, Vermont Studio Center, the National Endowment for the Humanities and others. April is an Assistant Professor of English at Malcolm X College.