Meet the Readers: Dayna Bateman

Dayna Bateman is a recovering tech worker who received the 2025 American Literary Review Nonfiction Prize for her essay: Deracination, or How to Disappear. A Granta Memoir and Tin House Workshop alum, she was awarded a Storyknife Residency on the strength and promise of her memoir-in-progress about growing up on the spinning edge of the record business.

Please join Dayna and our other awesome readers on Tuesday, June 3, 2025 in the upstairs bar at Hopleaf. Doors open at 7pm, and the show starts at 7:30. It's free, and 21-and-over. Please RSVP on Facebook.