two faced: Reading and Variety series
Thursday, march 12th 2026
Featuring readings by:
Calissa Kirilenko
Calissa is a Canadian writer with an MFA in Creative Writing from the New School. She is also a freelance journalist whose writing has appeared in publications such as The Everygirl, Betches, Young Hollywood, Frenshe, and Her Campus. Her fiction has appeared in Tethered Literary. She currently lives in New York City and, in her free time, loves to travel, share book recommendations on her Substack, and watch Bravo.
josh Krigman
josh Krigman is a writer, teacher, and facilitator in New York City. His work has appeared in Barrelhouse, The Summerset Review, Necessary Fiction, and elsewhere. He received his MFA in fiction from Hunter College. He is also the founder of Little Nights, an arts programming series that leads creative writing events, workshops, and retreats.
Isabella Corletto
Isabella Corletto was born in Guatemala City, Guatemala and is a writer and literary translator from Spanish and Italian. She has translated Amalia Andrade's Things You Think About When You Bite Your Nails (Penguin Books, 2020), and her writing and translations have appeared in Words Without Borders, the Cincinnati Review, Latin American Literature Today, the Arkansas International, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the 2023 PEN Grant for the English Translation of Italian Literature and serves on the board of the National Book Critics Circle.
Music by:
john cushing
John Cushing is a Trombonist, Songwriter, and composer, crafting emotional landscapes for as small as guitar and voice to the expressive magnitude of the 19-piece John Cushing Big Band.
hosted by:
Mary Karmelek
Mary Karmelek is a writer from Buffalo, NY whose work touches upon art, architecture, cultural heritage, cities, and the body. Her work has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Public Seminar, Hyperallergic, Newsweek, and elsewhere, and is currently completing her first novel. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School and is currently a National Book Critics Circle Emerging Fellow. Mary lives in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
About Green Lung Studio
Green Lung Studio was built by two artists who wanted a place to try things—loudly, quietly, imperfectly. Not a venue. Not a theater. A playground. A lab. A home. We know what it’s like to scrape by in a city that forgets its artists. So we made the kind of space we always needed—a place to test ideas, build weird things, and share the mess with people who get it.
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