The Sea Hag Literary Salon
Join us for a night of literature, local authors and community. Our second meeting will be May 13th at The Sea Hag Restaurant & Bar in Harvard Square. Come hear local authors read from their books and upcoming work. Hosted by local author Marianna Pease. DM @mariannapease to read. All events end with an open mic portion. Cheers!
Read About Our May Authors:
Michelle Bowdler is the author of Is Rape a Crime: a Memoir, an Investigation and a Manifesto. The book was longlisted for the National Book Award, named one of the 100 MUST Reads of 2020 by TIME Magazine. and on the best book lists of Publishers Weekly, the Boston Globe and BookPage. Bowdler is currently a scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University and is an instructor at Grub Street. Her second book will be published early in 2027 by Basic Books addressing the youth mental health crisis, specifically during the college years.
Ava Ghiotti Ava G. is a NYC-based lifestyle writer, documenting city life somewhere between chaos and charm. On her Substack,Welcome Home, NYC is where she shares her creative musings on solitude, connection, and joy, always with a little optimism and a bit sarcasm. Her newest sub-blog series, Hectic + Healthy, features 5–15 minute meals for anyone trying to keep it together while running from the protein police. When she’s not out on an adventure, she works as a creative brand strategist and live selling host, bringing products to life on QVC and across live platforms. You can following on IG: @avaglifestyle
E.M. Gallagher is the author of the dating memoir Ugh. Anyway...: Stories of Love, Heartbreak, Mayhem, and New York City. She is a New Yorker, retired hellraiser, and recovering middle school English teacher. She has told unhinged and mildly inappropriate stories at salons and storytelling shows across New York City, including Generation Women, Miss Manhattan, and Seanchoíche. She lives in Jersey City with her husband and too many plants.
Sara Reish Desmond’s debut short story collection, WHAT WE MIGHT BECOME, won the Storytrade Award in short fiction and an Independent Publishers Award. Sara’s stories have been published in The Kenyon Review, Los Angeles Review, Water~Stone Review, Cutthroat, Front Porch and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in fiction from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her stories have been finalists for the Rick DeMarinis Award in short fiction, the Copper Nickel Award in short fiction and have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is the 2025-2026 Gish Jen Fellow at Writer’s Room of Boston where she is at work on a novel and a new collection of fiction.
Cait Waynelovich is a writer and cohost of the podcast Margs & Manuscripts, where she talks all things writing and publishing with fellow authors. She holds an MFA from Bay Path University. Places We’ll Go is her debut novel, it releases on May 28th.
Ilan Mochari is the author of the poetry collection Playthings and the novel Zinsky the Obscure. Ilan’s short stories, poems, and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in The Cincinnati Review, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Salamander, Hobart, Solstice, and elsewhere. His work has been nominated for multiple Pushcart Prizes as well as the Derringer Award for crime fiction, and he has been the recipient of a Literature Artist Fellowship grant from the Somerville Arts Council.
Marianna Pease is the author of two books, “Pandemic Mom” and the most recent of which, “My Year(s) in the Woods” was published last fall by Pink Ink Press. She writes the blog 1-800 Marianna on Substack and lives in the woods with her daughter, rescue pup and five backyard chickens. She is currently working on a new memoir.