Reading: Whiskey Tit Authors

Cinema features in several of the pieces being read this evening. Featuring Whiskey Tit writers from Vermont Gina Tron, KT Mather, and others. Free. Bar and dinner service available.

Hugo’s Bar & Grill, 44 Main Street, 2nd floor, which is only accessible by stairs

About the authors

KT Mather

KT Mather’s debut novel, Rage Is a Wolf has been called ‘a reimagining of the very premises of a strong female lead’ by the LA Review of Books. And her prose style described by Kirkus as ‘profane, hilarious, vibrant, and surprising.’

KT grew up in Alaska with a respect for two things—nature and the power of a good story to change everything (or at least something). She was a high school English teacher and soccer coach for years and misses being around teenagers’ humor and authenticity.

She lives in Vermont with her family, where she writes, hosts the podcast “Out of Curiosity with kt mather,” referees soccer, and is busy converting her lawn into an edible forest and pollinator garden.

KT earned her BA in English from Western Washington University, an MA in Humanities from the University of Chicago, and an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from the Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Gina Tron

Gina Tron, photo by Isaac Wasuck

Gina has authored multiple books, including the 2020 poetry book “Star 67” which contains a poem that has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has several books forthcoming, including “Suspect,” which won the 2020 Tarpaulin Sky Book Award. Interview Magazine called her 2014 memoir You’re Fine., a memoir “vibrant, darkly funny, and courageously candid.” In 2015, she collaborated with photographer Jena Cumbo for We Met On The Internet, a book about couples who met online. Their research for the project has been publicized around the world and it was called “an anthropological study” by The New York Times. The project was featured on the cover of Wysokie Obcasy, a magazine in Poland.

Gina Tron writes true crime for Oxygen’s website and is an editor-at-large for Ladygunn. She has contributed to The Washington Post, VICE, Politico, USA Insider, The Daily Beast, XoJane, Salon, Noisey, Your Tango, Broadly, BULLETT, the Billfold, Wedding Guide, Wedding Pride, Psychic Gloss, Sentimentalist and Nation Inside (a non-profit that advocates for inmates). While working towards her MFA at the Vermont College of Fine Arts (which she obtained in 2018,) she worked as an essay editor for the online section of Hunger Mountain for a semester.  She worked as a volunteer for Writers for Recovery as well as for PEN America. She was a guest teacher at New Mexico School for the Arts and taught memoir and personal essay at the San Francisco Creative Writing Institute. She is an adjunct professor at Norwich University in Vermont.

Several of Gina’s works have had massive reach and international success, including her work on the opioid epidemic. She helped break a national story about heroin exploding in Vermont with a 2013 VICE magazine article called “Brown Mountain State,” and a 2014 Politico article called “How Did Idyllic Vermont Become America’s Heroin Capital?” where she wrote about her personal experience with peers dying from heroin. Soon after, National Public Radio’s Michel Martin program, Tell Me More, and Minnesota Public Radio both interviewed her. Rolling Stone cited her Politico article, and Seven Days credited her for “introducing the world to Vermont’s heroin problem.”