Author Karen Kotrba and historian Thomas Welsh will be featured at Lit Youngstown’s next First Wednesday Reader Series event.

Kotrba is the author of “Pottery Town Blues,” a collection of stories set in East Liverpool, and “She Who is Like a Mare,” poems about the midwives of Kentucky’s Frontier Nursing Service.

She also has completed a poetic sequence about America’s first female presidential candidate (and Gilded Age wild woman) Victoria Woodhull.

Welsh is a writer, editor, and educator who’s written the historical narratives “Strouss’: Youngstown’s Dependable Store,” “Classic Restaurants of Youngstown,” “A History of Jewish Youngstown and the Steel Valley” and “The Ursuline Sisters of Youngstown: Serving the Mahoning Valley Since 1874,” all published by History Press.

It starts at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Westside Bowl, 2617 Mahoning Ave., Youngstown, and will be followed by an open mic co-hosted by Regina Rees. Admission is free, and the event will take place on the main stage upstairs, which is fully accessible.