Ex Ophidia Press

Upcoming Events

Workshop at Nebraska Wildlife Rehab Facility

with Abby E. Murray

Saturday, August 9, 2025
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Nebraska Wildlife Rehab Facility
9777 M Street, Omaha, NE 68127

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Ex Ophidia Press is excited to announce that visiting poet Abby E. Murray will be hosting a free workshop at the Nebraska Wildlife Rehab Facility in Omaha, Nebraska on Saturday, August 9th from 10:00am to 12:00pm. Abby E Murray is the author of Ex Ophidia Press’s newest poetry collection, Recovery Commands, which is about the collision of military and civilian life found inside one loving, long-term, and contradictory marriage. During their workshop, titled, “Authenticity over Resiliency: Writing the Military Experience”, Abby E. Murray will examine and mine this experience further with a group comprised of various military experiences: current and former servicemembers as well as military spouses. This workshop will offer opportunity to the author expound upon their work, an examination of what poetry about the military experience entails, and time and space to write.

Book Reading and Signing at The Bookworm

with Abby E. Murray and Julie Paschold

Wednesday, August 6, 2025
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM

The Bookworm
2501 S. 90th Street, Omaha, NE

This event is free and open to the public.

Julie S. Paschold, also known as Tansy Julie the Soaring Eagle, is an award-winning poet and artist from Nebraska.  They earned their Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in agronomy from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. They have published three poetry books. Horizons honors soil, one of our nonrenewable resources, and won a Nebraska Book Award in 2024. The chapbook You Have Always Been Here is an unconventional love story.  Human Nature explores humanity’s ecological and environmental connection to nature and the planet earth. Both Horizons and Human Nature are available as audiobooks. Julie is the resident poetry instructor at Omaha’s Lauritzen Gardens. They have been published in a wide range of publications, most recently in The Awakenings Review, The Guilded Weathervane, and Willow Review. Their poem “Multitudes of Blue Arrows” was a semi-finalist in the first Kate Sommers Memorial Prize, and two of their chapbooks won honorable mention in contests by Writer’s Digest. They have blogs on medium.com and Google Blogspot.

Reading and Book Signing at Francie and Finch Bookshop

with Ava Nathaniel Winter

Friday, August 8, 2025
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM

Francie and Finch Bookshop
130 South 13th St. Suite 100, Lincoln, NE

This event is free and open to the public.

Ava Nathaniel Winter is the author of Transgenesis, which was a winner of the National Poetry Series. Her poetry has appeared in The Baffler, Beloit Poetry Journal, Poetry International, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. Ava holds an MFA From the Ohio State University and a PhD from the University of Nebraska—Lincoln, where she teaches in the Department of English and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program. Learn more at www.avanwinter.com.