LEOPOLDINE CORE and MONICA MCCLURE at ZINC

Leopoldine Core was born and raised in Manhattan. Her poems and fiction have appeared in Apology, Open City, The Literarian, The Drunken Boat, The Brooklyn Rail, Big Lucks and elsewhere. Her chapbook “Young Friend” was published by Perfect Lovers Press in 2013 and her first full-length book is forthcoming from Coconut Books.

Monica McClure’s debut collection, Tender Data, will be published by Birds, LLC this year. She is the author of the chapbooks, Mood Swing, from Snacks Press and Mala, forthcoming from Poor Claudia. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Tin House, The Los Angeles Review, The Lit Review, Lambda Literary Review’s Spotlight Series, The Awl, Spork Press, Similar: Peaks:: and elsewhere. She curates Atlas, a collaboration series of visual artists and poets, and lives in New York City.