Fox City Lit is a literary reading series in Fairfax City, Virginia. Back in the day, because of all the little red foxes that scurry about, our city earned the nickname Fox City. Plus: you cannot deny the immaculate phonetic interplay of “fax” and “fox”
Northern Virginia is a hotbed of bright and brilliant literary talent with neither gyre nor centre. We hope to tempt our literary friends together with fresh conviction–to foster an atmosphere of creativity, playfulness, and enthusiastic encouragement.
Together, let’s make writing fun!
Liz Paul
Liz Paul is the author of two chapbooks of ekphrastic prose poems inspired by Henri Matisse and Marc Chagall: Blue Lovers (Yavanika Press, 2024) and Reading Girl (Finishing Line Press, 2016). Her poems, essays, collages, and collaborations have appeared in The Carolina Quarterly, Duende, Cold Mountain Review, and elsewhere. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee and finalist for the Gournay Prize and the Orison Anthology Best Spiritual Literature Award in Nonfiction. She lives in Fairfax with her husband and fox-obsessed dog, Romulus.
Billy Howell
Billy Howell‘s work has appeared in Columbia Review, The Florida Review, Fugue, and elsewhere. An enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, he lives in Fairfax with his lovely wife, cantankerous rabbit, and elderly cat. He is an associate professor at George Mason University. In his free time, he is trying to master German grammar and to expand his repertoire of Nineties guitar covers. Find him on Instagram and Threads.
Erika Ostergaard
Erika Ostergaard is a poet and cybersecurity analyst. She holds a JD, a BA in literature, and the curious will of a renaissance man. When not writing poetry, she is researching and writing conference papers exploring the Magna Carta, Robin Hood, and misinformation. She lives with her husband, cat, and a captivatingly angry rabbit. Find her on Instagram.
Michael Don
Michael Don is the author of the story collection Partners and Strangers. He is a professor at George Mason University and co-editor of Kikwetu: A Journal of East African Literature. He is also, according to his three-year-old housemate, “stuck on the mountain of life.” You can find him online here.
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