This event will feature readings by

Lisa Lutwyche
Nick Lutwyche

Hosted by Brooke Palma. An open mic will follow.

Barnaby’s West Chester
15 S. High St.
West Chester PA 19382

Lisa Lutwyche has her MFA in creative writing from Goddard College in Vermont. Poet, author, artist, and produced playwright, she’s been published in literary magazines across the US and in the UK. Her full-length poetry collection, A Difficult Animal, came out in 2016 from Saddle Road Press. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for her poetry twice (in 2000 and again in 2015). Lisa’s short stories have been recognized as well: one nominated for The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017 anthology; and one as a semifinalist in the Tulip Tree Review’s 2023 “Wild Women” contest. Her one-act plays have been produced (or performed in staged readings) in New Mexico, Vermont, Philadelphia, and Swarthmore, PA, as well as in Maryland. Lisa has taught creative writing workshops in Philadelphia, Delaware, New Mexico, and in the UK, and has taught writing at Cecil College since 2013

Nick Lutwyche spent twenty-five years in the Royal Navy and fifteen years in the British Ministry of Defence. He has been an actor in community theatre since his boyhood in England, recently playing parts from Gonzalo in Shakespeare’s Tempest to C.S. Lewis in Williamson’s Shadowlands. Nick’s poetry has been published in the UK and in the US for over twenty-five years, in print and online in Mad Poets Review, Fuze, Tamafyr Review, Falklands War Poetry, The Disasters of War (from Moonstone Press), and many others. He had a non-fiction piece published in Consequences (an ezine concerning experiences of war) in 2022.

In the spring of 2012 Nick Lutwyche performed with five other veterans on the stage of the Library of Congress in “The Telling Project.” The production began with an excerpt from one of his poems.