Writers Reading @ AACC: Jacob Budenz
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Jacob Budenz will read from their work and take questions from the audience.
Jacob Budenz is an author, multidisciplinary performer and musician with an M.F.A. from the University of New Orleans and a Bachelor of Arts from Johns Hopkins University. The author of magic realist short story collection Tea Leaves (Bywater Books 2023) and poetry chapbook Pastel Witcheries (Seven Kitchens Press 2018), Budenz has fiction and poetry in print journals including Slipstream and Door Is A Jar, zeitgeisty online journals including Wussy Mag and Taco Bell Quarterly, and anthologies by Mason Jar Press, Unbound Edition and more. Budenz’s lauded theatre and performance work has appeared in Baltimore City Paper’s Top 10 Staged Productions of Baltimore City, and they have presented spoken word performances for the Walters Art Museum's Queering the Collection Series. They are a recent winner of the Baker Innovative Projects Award as well as a runner up for the Patty Friedman poetry prize.
All Writers Reading events are free and open to students, faculty, staff and the community.