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Please join us on Sunday, August 28th, at Bookends & Beginnings to celebrate three of our graduates: Dan Fliegel, Paula Root, and Frank Wees. They will read alongside faculty members Reginald Gibbons and Christine Sneed.

Graduate bios:

Dan Fliegel lives and teaches high school English in Chicago's western suburbs. He has a self-published chapbook, Direct Cinema (2013). His thesis manuscript for Northwestern, his first full-length collection, is entitled Road, River, Forest and is yet to be published. He loves spending time with his wife and three children, ages 11, 13 and 17, and is an avid birdwatcher and surfer.

Paula Root recently graduated from Northwestern University with a MFA in Creative Writing. She lives in Chicago with her husband and three children and has had work published in The North American Review and in Pembroke.

Frank Wees received his MFA from Northwestern University in 2015. He writes fiction and lives with his fiction-writing wife and not-fiction-writing cats.

Facutly bios:

Reginald Gibbons is a poet, novelist, translator, and critic. His tenth book of poems, LAST LAKE, will be published in October, his collection of very short fiction, RESCUE, will be published in 2017, and his book about poetry, HOW POEMS THINK, was published in fall 2015. When he was director of the MALit degree in SPS, he founded the MA/MFA program, and has been its director or co-director until stepping down this summer. He was the editor of TriQuarterly 1981-1997. His CREATURES OF A DAY was a Finalist for the National Book Award in poetry.

Christine Sneed is the author of two novels, Paris, He Said and Little Known Facts, and two short story collections, Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry and the forthcoming The Virginity of Famous Men. She is the recipient of the Grace Paley Prize, the Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year Award, and the Chicago Public Library Foundation's 21st Century Award. Her stories have appeared in anthologies such as The Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories and numerous literary journals. She lives in Evanston.