Tuesday, March 28, 2023, Birch Bark Editing hosted a reading and conversation with Tara Ison and David Ryan. Tara read from At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf and David read from his work.

Tara Ison is the author of the novels A Child out of Alcatraz, The List, Rockaway, and At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf; the short story collection Ball; and the essay collection Reeling Through Life: How I Learned to Live, Love, and Die at the Movies. Her short fiction and cnf have appeared in multiple journals and anthologies, including BOMB, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. In another life, she co-wrote the cult classic film Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead. www.TaraIson.com

David Ryan’s recent and forthcoming work appears in The O. Henry Prize anthology, Georgia Review, Harvard Review, Copper Nickel, Fence, Cincinnati Review, New England Review, The Common, and elsewhere. He is the author of the story collection Animals in Motion (Roundabout Press) and a recent Artistic Excellence Fellow with the Connecticut Office of the Arts. More here: www.davidwryan.com