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Charlottesville Reading Series will present poet Raisa Tolchinsky, a University of Virginia master of fine arts alumna, and fiction writer and UVa professor Kevin Moffett at 7 p.m. Friday at New Dominion Bookshop.

Tolchinsky is the author of the poetry collection “Glass Jaw,” which won the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize. A student at Harvard Divinity School, she was the 2022-2023 George Bennett Writer-in-Residence at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. She also trained as an amateur boxer.

Moffett, who teaches in the creative writing program at UVa, is the author of two story collections and the Silent History, a narrative app for mobile devices. He also wrote a pair of scripted podcasts, “Sandra” and “The Final Chapters of Richard Brown Winters,” for Gimlet Media.

The bookstore staff recommend arriving early to get the best seating. Learn more about the series at readingseries.org.

New Dominion Bookshopwill present a book reading and signing with …