Coordinates: A Podcast for Writers & Readers 

Combining panels with publishing professionals, interviews with featured authors, and a rapid-fire Q&A between literary pals, Coordinates is not-your-average podcast! Co-hosted by KT Herr and Hannah Matheson, this long-form quarterly series has unique segments — “Fresh Pressed,” “Fellow Traveler,” “Hot Dish,” and “From the Crossroads” — that invite you to listen all in one go or digest it in sections. Like a good book, Coordinates takes advantage of its robust runtime (usually 2 hours per episode) to build an entire world. Listeners can take their time with these episodes, pausing and returning to each over several days. This show is your one-stop shop for literary community; listen along as we demystify the publishing industry, dive deep with contemporary authors, ask writing friends our burning questions, and send listeners on their way with an actionable prompt and creative inspiration for the miles to come. Coordinates is grateful to Four Way Books for sponsorship and to the Cornelius Eady Group for the beautiful music featured in each episode.

This LitNYS project is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Featured Guests Include:

Ryan Murphy

Megan Pinto

Hannah Matheson received her MFA in poetry at New York University, where she served as poetry editor of Washington Square Review. Previously awarded scholarships to attend The Frost Place Conference on Poetry, Hannah has poems published in Four Way Review, The Adroit Journal, Small Orange Journal, Pigeon Pages, Solar, Image Journal, Honey Lit, Best New Poets, HAD, and elsewhere. Hannah currently works as senior editor at Four Way Books.

KT Herr (they & she) is a writer, musician, educator, and curious person from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. They hold a BA in English Language & Literature from Smith College and an MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College, where they worked as a coordinator for the Right-to-Write Program and as director for the Sarah Lawrence Poetry Festival. 

KT’s poems have been selected as finalists in the Frontier OPEN Prize and the Palette Poetry Spotlight Award; as semifinalist for the 92Y Discovery Contest; and as winner of the 2020 Sweet Lit Poetry Contest. Additionally, their writing has appeared in or is forthcoming from Black Warrior Review, ANMLY, Frontier Poetry, Barrow Street 4×2, and elsewhere. KT has received creative support from the Atlantic Center for the Arts and Great Lakes Experimental Arts.

KT is a board member at Four Way Books and an Inprint C. Glenn Cambor PhD Fellow in literature and creative writing at the University of Houston.