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IAWA-BOSTON Presents:
Laurette Viteritti Folk and Timothy Gager
Saturday, October 18th, 2025, at I Am Books
124 Salem Street, Boston, MA
6-8 PM EST; Open Mic begins at 6; admission is free
Laurette Viteritti Folk’s fiction, essays, and poems have been published in Waxwing, Gravel, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Boston Globe Magazine, and Best Small Fictions. Her first novel, A Portal to Vibrancy won the Independent Press Award for New Adult Fiction. Her second novel, The End of Aphrodite, won the Eric Hoffer Award for General Fiction. Laurette is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee and has an MFA in Writing from Vermont College.
Timothy Gager is the author of 20 books, which includes his fourth novel, Shadows of the Seen. He hosts the Dire Literary Series and a dating disaster comedy Podcast. He has had 1000 works of fiction and poetry published, 19 nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His work also was nominated for a Massachusetts Book Award, The Best of the Web, The Best Small Fictions Anthology and has been read on National Public Radio.