Salon Salvage returns at their regularly scheduled time, last Saturday night of the month, June 28th, 7pm, at Upstairs Arts Collective in Troy (403 Fulton).
The featured readers/performers will be visiting writers Erin Dorney, Maryam Parhizkar, and Jordan Windholz, as well as sculptor (and Upstairs artist) Z. Cecilia Lu.
We ask for a $3-10 sliding scale donation, and for this night, we are requesting that attendees wear masks (we’ll provide one if needed).
Erin Dorney is a poet based in Western New York. She is the author of Yes I Am Human I Know You Were Wondering (Autofocus, March 2025), The Usual Arteries (Illuminated Press), Grating, Darling, Full of Dirt (Common Meter Press), I Am Not Famous Anymore: Poems After Shia LaBeouf (Mason Jar Press), and many zines. Erin’s writing has been published in Autofocus, Tolka, HAD, and other literary journals. Her literary artwork and installations have been featured at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, and Susquehanna Art Museum. She is the co-founder of Fear No Lit and managing editor at Sarabande Books.
Z. Cecilia Lu is a Chinese-American artist based in Upstate New York. Her art practice engages multi-generational and familial histories in the context of mourning and non-western healing practices. She has had solo undertakings at Collar Works (Troy, NY), The Soil Factory (Ithaca, NY) and The Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art (Ithaca, NY). She has been artist-in-residence at Monson Arts Center (Monson, ME), Jingdezhen Pottery Workshop (Jingdezhen, China), Woodstock Byrdcliffe (Woodstock, NY), and has received grants from The Puffin Foundation and The Northern Clay Center. She received her BFA from Cornell University.
Maryam Ivette Parhizkar is a writer, scholar, educator, curator and translator. Her creative/critical work has appeared or is forthcoming in NACLA Report on the Americas, Annulet: A Journal of Poetics, New England Review, Theatre, Jewish Currents, Social Text Online, The Rumpus, The Offing, Academy of American Poets Poet-a-Day, and elsewhere. She is the author of three poetry and essay chapbooks, most recently Somewhere Else the Sun is Falling into Someone’s Eyes (Belladonna* Collaborative, 2019).
Jordan Windholz is the author of The Sisters (Black Ocean, 2024), Other Psalms, winner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry (UNT Press, 2015), and The Single Life: Unpatriarchal Manhoods in English Renaissance Literature (University of Alabama Press, 2025). He lives in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, with his family.
