Kitchen Table Reading

In the organizer's words:

Join us for an evening of readings by members of Kitchen Table, a Berlin-based writing group named in homage to the 1980s US feminist women-of-color press. Founded in 2022 by critic and historian of science Edna Bonhomme, the group meets monthly to read, write, share resources, support one another, and reflect - often with joy and humor - on what it means to be a writer in difficult times. Working across genres, Kitchen Table members will share excerpts from works in progress and previously published pieces.

Edna Bonhomme: Edna Bonhomme is a critic, journalist, and historian of science. She is a finalist for the 2026 Nona Balakian Award from the National Book Critics Circle. She earned a PhD in History from Princeton University. Bonhomme's essays have appeared in The Atlantic, The Guardian, London Review of Books, The Nation, and elsewhere. Her books include After Sex (2023), A History of the World in Six Plagues (2025), and Tending to Our Wounds (2026). She lives in Berlin.

Charmaine Li: Born in Toronto, Charmaine Li is a writer based in Berlin. She is interested in cultivating modes of storytelling and space-making that embrace ambiguity and move beyond dualistic frameworks. Guided by intuition and independent research, her projects have taken the form of texts, experimental publications, multimedia installations, and participatory readings for collective dream reflection. She helped establish ONEIRIC SPACE, a research project that examines how dreams intertwine with waking life.

Pia Koh: Pia Koh is a writer and editor from New York. She's currently pursuing an MA in English Philology at Freie Universität in Berlin; previously, she studied English Literature at Columbia University. She's interested in stories that, regardless of plot, elevate language.

Ishi Robinson: Ishi Robinson was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica. A Canadian citizen, she has lived in Bern, Toronto, Rome, and London, and now lives in Berlin with her Czech husband. Her first published work was a short story in Jamaica's national newspaper when she was eleven. At seventeen, she started a weekly column in The Jamaica Observer about teenage life in Kingston. She also wrote a weekly column on life as an expat in Rome for a now-defunct online magazine. She returned to fiction writing in Berlin, where she has published short stories in several online publications and in one anthology. Sweetness in the Skin is her first novel.