Tulsa Chapter Leader
Jeff Martin is an author, editor, and Founder/Executive Director of the Tulsa Literary Coalition and Magic City Books. His books include The Customer is Always Wrong: The Retail Chronicles (Soft Skull Press), a National Book Critics Circle Award nominee and a Shelf Awareness Book of the Year and The Late American Novel: Writers on the Future of Books (Counterpoint), praised in the New Yorker, The Economist, and called “funny, poignant, relentlessly thought-provoking” by The Atlantic. He is a contributor to Publishers Weekly, Poets & Writers, Salon.com, and National Public Radio. Most recently his poetry appeared in the new anthology, The Eloquent Poem (Persea) edited by Elise Paschen.
PEN America in Tulsa
Recent Events
PEN Tulsa welcomes Tulsa poet Quinn Carver Johnson to Magic City Books to celebrate their debut poetry collection, The Perfect Bastard.
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PEN America, Black History Saturdays, and the National Geographic Society's 2892 Miles To Go program are excited to announce our first Freedom to Read Community Summit in Tulsa for…
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Join PEN Tulsa for an enlightening dialogue on bridging the gap between the media and the Tulsa community.
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Please join us at Fulton Street Books for a reading and book signing with award-winning author James Hannaham.
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James Hannaham, Kalup Linzy, and PEN Tulsa, invite you to a joyous celebration of queerness and free expression.
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Timed to mark both PEN America’s 100th anniversary in 2022 and the lead-up to the U.S. semiquincentennial, the event series will run for two years from 2022-2023, and the…
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Join us for a thought-provoking panel on the crucial role Black media can play in fostering conversations regarding the banning of Black books
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Join PEN Tulsa for a virtual conversation addressing the homophobia and transphobia embedded in the recent wave of book bans in Oklahoma
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PEN America Tulsa is proud to welcome Dan Pfeiffer to Tulsa, Oklahoma for a conversation on his new book Battling the Big Lie: How Fox, Facebook, and the Maga…
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PEN America Tulsa is proud to welcome creator of The 1619 Project Nikole Hannah-Jones for an in-person conversation moderated by Dr. Tiffany T. Crutcher.
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Carlisha Williams Bradley and Anne Hyde join PEN America for a discussion of current threats to honest teaching of history and racism in Oklahoma schools.
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The PEN Across America program is excited to invite you to an in-person reading and author conversation with Ashley C. Ford.
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Join PEN America Tulsa for a poetry reading to commemorate the 100th year anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre with five Tulsa poets.
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In partnership with the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, PEN America is excited to host a conversation with Hannibal Johnson and Randy Krehbiel.
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PEN America CEO Suzanne Nossel will be in conversation with Dr. John Schumann, president of OU-Tulsa and a Tulsa Literary Coalition board member, to discuss her new book.
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Join authors Salman Rushdie and Laila Lalami in Tulsa during Banned Books Week 2019 to discuss Rushdie's new book, Quichotte.
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In this 2019 Tulsa LitFest workshop, Heid will talk about imagination, dream, memory, and collaboration in her poems, films, and stories.
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Lindsey Claire Smith and Julie Pearson Little Thunder will moderate a discussion between poets Heid E. Erdrich and Sly Alley at the 2019 Tulsa LitFest.
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PEN America is pleased to present a reporting symposium on the Indian Child Welfare Act, featuring keynote speaker Suzette Brewer.
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PEN America will host a gathering of local journalists and community members in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to discuss local journalism.
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PEN America presents a free evening with Chris McGreal, Guardian journalist and author of American Overdose, a book about the opioid crisis in America.
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