This event is free and open to the public. Registration is not required. Barnswallow Books will have copies of Aviv’s work for sale. A Q+A and book signing will follow the conversation. Refreshments and light bites provided.

ROXANA ROBINSON is the author of eleven books—seven novels, three collections of short stories, and the biography of Georgia O’Keefe. Four of there were chosen as New York Times Notable Books, two as New York Times Editors’ Choices. 

Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, Best American Short Stories, The Southampton Review, Ep!phany, and elsewhere. Her work has been widely anthologized and broadcast on NPR. Her books have been published in England, France, Germany, Holland and Spain. 

Roxanna has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation and the MacDowell Colony, and she was named a Literary Lion by the New York Public Library. Robinson has served on the Boards of PEN and the Authors Guild, and was the president of the Authors Guild. She has received the Barnes and Noble “Writers for Writers Award”, given by Poets and Writers, and the Award for Distinguished Service to the Literary Community from the Authors Guild. She teaches in the MFA Program at Hunter College. She lives in New York City and northwestern Connecticut.

Robinson will be interviewed by novelist and Maine native, Caitlin Shetterly.

Roxanna will interview Susan Choi as a part of the 2026 Pascal Hall Authors Series on July 9th from 5-7PM. This series is free and open to the public. If interest in attending, you can register here.