Wednesday March 4, 2026 – Live at Fergie’s Pub

Featuring: Jo Piazza, Christina Rosso-Schneider, and Julianna Forlano as Host

Jo Piazza is an international bestselling author, award-winning journalist, and podcast creator known for 12+ books, including The Sicilian Inheritance and We Are Not Like Them. She hosts the critically acclaimed podcast Under the Influence. Her work spans fiction and non-fiction, often exploring relationships, motherhood, and social commentary.

Christina Rosso-Schneider (she/they) is a queer, disabled writer based outside Philadelphia. She is the author of CREOLE CONJURE and SHE IS A BEAST. Her fiction and nonfiction—often exploring gender, sexuality, fairy tales, and the occult—has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best Small Fictions. She is also the co-owner of A Novel Idea, an independent bookstore and event space on Passyunk named one of the best bookstores in the region by The Philadelphia Inquirer, and teaches in the Humanities department at Moore College of Art and Design.

Julianna Forlano of the Italian American Herald and Olive on the Apple Tree on Substack—centering Italianità, ancestral voice, and the stories that both carry us forward and root us to home.

Julianna Forlano Host – Open Reading follows