MadFridays Reading Series presents a reading with Sarah Williams Devereux, Bernadette Ulsamer and Chloë Mattingly on Friday, October 12th at Delanie's Coffee, South Side.

Bernadette Ulsamer earned an MFA from Carlow University where she is a member of  Madwomen in the Attic. She is the author of the chapbook “Trestling” published by Flutter Press. Her poetry has appeared in Pittsburgh City Paper, The Main Street Rag, Cossack Literary Journal, Roar Magazine, The Broken Plate, Meat For Tea: The Valley Review, and has been anthologized in Voices from the Attic, and Along These Rivers.

Chloë Mattingly is an essayist who splits her time and her heart between Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Chattanooga, Tennessee. Her work has been selected as a 2017 contest winner for The Baltimore Review, published in Creative Nonfiction’s anthology Show Me All Your Scars, and selected as a Notable Essay for the 2018 Memoir Magazine #MeToo essay contest. She works at Carnegie Mellon University.

Sarah Williams-Devereux is a poet and teacher of writing. Her poetry has appeared in Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing, Sampsonia Way Magazine, Pittsburgh City Paper; the anthologies Pittsburgh Love Stories (The New Yinzer, 2004) and Nasty Women & Bad Hombres (Lascaux Editions, 2017); Common Threads: Faith, Activism, and the Art of Healing multimedia exhibition; and WESA-FM’s Prosody. She leads poetry workshops for the Madwomen in the Attic Creative Writing Workshops. She is certified in writing group leadership from Amherst Writers & Artists, and certified in TLA foundations from the Transformative Language Arts Network. She is pursuing graduate study in teaching writing from Johns Hopkins University.

MadFridays Reading Series is a series presented by the Madwomen in the Attic writing workshops.