On Jan. 31, The Porch is thrilled to welcome Visiting Writer Sheree L. Greer to Nashville. Greer, based in Florida, has been teaching for the Porch online since 2020 and is beloved by our many students who have taken her memoir class “You Are the Protagonist,” sessions on submitting work for publication, and others. This evening, we’ll gather at Land of Thousand Hills Coffee for a reading and Q&A with Sheree, as well as readings from local writers Tiffany Abreu (Art Wire ’23), Marianne Richmond, and Patricia Mitchell. The evening will also feature a pop-up from Bard’s Towne Books & Bourbon, a new venture from poet Ciona Rouse; books will be available for purchase, along with a signature bourbon cocktail.

The following morning, Feb. 1, at the Porch House, Sheree will teach “Embracing the Unknown: Writing as Experiment and Exploration,” a generative session welcoming writers of all levels. (This will be Sheree’s first time teaching for The Porch in person!) Please join us for this special weekend with author and teacher Sheree L. Greer.

Sheree L. Greer’s visit and The Porch’s Visiting Writers Series are supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, South Arts, and the Amazon Literary Partnership. We are grateful for event cosponsorship from The Nocturne Reading Series as well.

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Sheree L. Greer is a text-based artist and educator living in Tampa, Florida. In 2014, she founded The Kitchen Table Literary Arts Center to showcase and support the work of Black women and women of color writers and is the author of two novels, Let the Lover Be and A Return to Arms, a short story collection, Once and Future Lovers, and a student writing guide, Stop Writing Wack Essays. Her work has been published in First Bloom Anthology, LezTalk Anthology, VerySmartBrothas, Autostraddle, The Windy City Times, Bleed Literary Journal, and the Windy City Queer Anthology: Dispatches from the Third Coast. Sheree has received a Union League of Chicago Civic Arts Foundation award, earned her MFA at Columbia College Chicago, and is a VONA/VOICES alum, Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice grantee, Yaddo fellow, and Ragdale Artist House Rubin Fellow. Her essay, "Bars" published in Fourth Genre Magazine, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and notably named in Best American Essays 2019, and her latest essay, "None of this is Bullshit" was published at The Rumpus and featured in "Memoir Mondays."