On Thursday, April 18, at 6 pm in Bard Hall, Aaliyah Bilal will read from her work. She will be introduced by Rachel Ephraim, Bard Early College Hudson Valley faculty member. The reading will be followed by a discussion moderated by her editor Yahdon Israel, senior editor at Simon & Schuster. The next day, April 19, Yahdon will have a conversation with students about the future of publishing, his work as an editor, writer, and the creator of the Literary Swag Bookclub.

Yahdon Israel is a Senior editor at Simon Schuster and founder of Literaryswag, a cultural movement that intersects literature and fashion to make books accessible.  He has written for The New Inquiry, LitHub, Poets and Writers, Vanity Fair, and The Atlantic. He teaches Creative Writing at the MFA Program at City College, previously served on the Board of the National Book Critics Circle, and founded the Literaryswag Book Club, a Brooklyn-based subscription service and book club that meets every last Wednesday of the month.

Read more about Yahdon’s here.