Book Launch | Hotfruit by Erinrose Mager

Pre-purchase your copy of the featured title to guarantee your signed copy! Can't make it? 

ABOUT THE BOOK

Strange and incantatory, Erinrose Mager's debut collection Hot Fruit investigates the longing for self, the longing for another, and the longing for connection between the self and another when the other is inherently unknowable.

The pieces in this collection constellate sensations of familial loss and longing, class and financial precarity, culinary ritual, fractured memory, and the peculiarity of placelessness, interspersed with a fable cycle that reimagines Korean myths, legends, and contemporary media through the lens of the adoptee experience.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Erinrose Mager is the author of Hot Fruit. Her work appears in Fence, DIAGRAM, jubilat, The Poetry Project's The Recluse, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. She teaches at The Brooklyn Writers Foundry MFA program at St. Joseph's University in New York and runs Nightwork, a writers workshop, with Alec Niedenthal. She is the Fiction Editor at Brink Literary.

IN CONVERSATION WITH

Jesse Jae Hoon (윤재훈) is a playwright, organizer, and occasional actor based in Queens. His play Titans premiered at Clubbed Thumb’s 2026 Summerworks and will soon be produced at Company One in Boston. He’s developed work with The Public Theater (EWG ’23-25), New York Theatre Workshop, The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Rattlestick Theater, Ma-Yi Theater Company (’22-’24 CRNY resident playwright), The Civilians (R&D ’25-26), Yangtze Rep (Project YZ ’26), The Playwrights Realm (’22-23 fellow), Theater J, Studio Theatre, Egg & Spoon, The Parsnip Ship, and more. Under commission from Atlantic Theater Company and San Francisco Playhouse. Winner, 2023 Ollie Award; 2026/2024 MacDowell Fellow; 2025 Yaddo resident. MFA in Playwriting from Hunter College. jessejaehoon.com