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IAWA-BOSTON Presents:

featuring

DOMENICA RUTA

and open mic

Saturday, February 21, 2026, at I Am Books

124 Salem Street, Boston, MA

6-7:30 PM EST; Open Mic begins at 6; admission is free

Domenica Ruta is the NYTimes bestselling author of the memoir With or Without You and the novel Last Day, a 2019 NYT Notable book of the year, and most recently the novel All the Mothers, all from Random House. She has published short fiction and essays in the Iowa Review, the Boston Review, the Indiana Review, Epoch, Ninth Letter, The Cut, People, and elsewhere, and has been anthologized a handful of times, most notably in Wanting and the forthcoming No Contact. She publishes personal essays with zero regularity and lots of love for free on her Substack. Follow her on Instagram at @domenicaruta .

Upcoming readings in Boston at I Am Books

March 21: Casey Roland & J.D. Scrimgeour

April 18: Michael Franco & Jane Ward

May 16: Jennifer Militello & George Guida

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