Iowa Writers’ Workshop alum C. Mallon will read from her debut novel, Dogs. Described by Simon and Schuster as a story that “traces the fallout of one catastrophic night in the lives of five high school wrestlers, asking what can survive in the blast radius of latent trauma and violence,” Dogs is praised by Kevin Brockmeier, author of The Brief History of the Dead, as “equal parts scouring and clarifying, the kind of writing that exposes the wounds in order to irrigate them,” while Daniel Magariel, author of One of the Boys praises Dogs as “a raw, beautiful excavation of the wounds blown open by the betrayal of life’s most sacred relationships.”

C. Mallon is a graduate of the University of East Anglia and holds an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is a writer of literary fiction, working with a heavy emphasis on themes of masculinity, violence, and the shrapnel radius of serious trauma across communities and generations. She is also a 2024 fellow of the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center (fawc.org).