On Sunday, April 27, Baton Rouge Gallery’s Sundays@4 series will host a presentation of readings by Louisiana State University, Third-year MFA in Creative Writing Candidates. As with all Sundays@4 experiences, this will be free and open to the public.
About the readers:
Kayla Jackson
Kayla Jackson is an interdisciplinary artist from New Orleans who blends visual arts, music, and spoken word to share stories about God, her life and surroundings. Kayla’s first collection of poetry was published in 2015 and has been published in various literary magazines since. She earned a Master of Arts in English Literature from Tulane University in 2018 and is now an MFA candidate in Creative Writing at Louisiana State University.
Halley McArn
Halley McArn is an MFA candidate at Louisiana State University with a focus on prose writing. She is the current editorial assistant for The Southern Review and has worked as an editor for New Delta Review and Speculative Nonfiction. You can find her work in Bright Wall/Dark Room.
Sunny Rosen
Sunny Rosen (she/her) is your friendly neighborhood bisexual anticapitalist and a graduating LSU MFA student in fiction. Her work has been published by or is forthcoming in The Chicago Review, Taco Bell Quarterly, and Caesura, among other outlets. Sunny also works as a copywriter and publicity coordinator for LSU Press and The Southern Review.
Rose Marie Torres
A native of South Texas, Rose Marie Torres is an MFA candidate at LSU with a focus on screenwriting and creative nonfiction. Since 2023, Rose has been the Creative Writing Program Assistant for the LSU English Department. She is supported by the 2025 Tin House Winter Workshop and can be found in Latinitas Magazine and Hothouse.
Alejandra Vansant
Alejandra Vansant is from the Eastern Shore of Virginia, but currently lives and writes in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She has served as a poetry editor for New Delta Review, and her work can be found in Tilted House, Volume Poetry, Alabama Literary Review, as well as many homemade books and zines.
Sundays@4 is presented in partnership with the Atchafalaya National Heritage Area whose mission is to enhance the identity of our unique American landscape by preserving and promoting our heritage and by fostering progress for local champions that create authentic, powerful connections between people, culture, and the environment.