In celebration of the fourth season of the Tables of Contents Regenerative Residency program, we are holding an open residency day for the TOC and Glynwood community! We'll gather at the Perkins House at Glynwood in the afternoon on Sunday, March 15th for some local cider, readings from our 2026 Spring residents Swati Sudarsan and Kasey Payette, small snacks inspired by their readings, and a little open conversation about their time at the residency this winter into spring.
Swati Sudarsan is a writer from the midwest, now based in Brooklyn. She is a 2025 Asian American Writers' Workshop Margins Fellow and 2025 Periplus Fellow. Her work can be found in or is forthcoming from the Cleveland Review of Books, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Rumpus, and more. She'll be working on her first novel at Table of Contents, which was longlisted for the Granum Prize.
Kasey Payette is a Minneapolis-based writer whose work explores food, gardening, and queer utopias. Her essays and stories have appeared in Blue Earth Review, CALYX, Juked, Gulf Coast, Water~Stone Review, and elsewhere. Jenn Shapland selected her essay “Good Babies” as the first-place winner in Blue Mesa Review’s Spring 2025 Nonfiction Contest, and her short story “We’re Not Weird About It” was anthologized in Best Small Fictions 2023, published by Alternating Current Press. She has taught community writing workshops in Minnesota and Washington, and her work has been supported by the Loft Mentor Series Fellowship and the Minnesota State Arts Board. She is currently completing her MFA through the Bennington Writing Seminars.