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Aug
9
2018

MA/MFA Graduate & Faculty Summer Reading

When: Thursday, August 9, 2018
4:45 PM - 7:00 PM CT

Where: SPS Wieboldt Hall, 339 E. Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Contact: Amy Danzer   (847) 491-3051

Group: School of Professional Studies

Category: Academic

Description:

We're proud to host Northwestern University's MA/MFA Program's Summer Graduate & Faculty Reading featuring Anne-Marie Akin, Laura Jones, Gretchen Kalwinski, Juan Martinez, and Christine Sneed.

Mixer is at 4:45pm, Reading is at 5:30pm

Anne-Marie Akin is a Jubilation Foundation Fellow, a faculty member at Chicago’s Old Town School of Folk Music, and a songwriter for Carnegie Hall’s National Lullaby Project. She has taught writing at Harold Washington College, and is a prior recipient of an NEA teaching artist fellowship. Her work has been published in The Bitter Southerner, Mothers Always Write, Pass it On, About Place, and the anthology The Buddha Next Door. Collaborative works include the oral history song cycle, “Call and Response,” which was commissioned in 2012. She holds an MFA in nonfiction creative writing from Northwestern University.

Laura Jones writes across multiple genres including fiction, nonfiction, screenwriting, and journalism. She worked professionally in film and television for fifteen years, including helping to create the PBS documentary series, Art: 21 Art in the Twenty-First Century. In 2017, she graduated with an MFA in Nonfiction from Northwestern University, where she won the AWP Journals Prize. Her work has been published in two anthologies, They Said (edited by Simone Muench) and da Cunha, Volume 2, and numerous literary magazines like Creative Nonfiction, Foglifter, The Gay and Lesbian Review, The Drum, and About Place Journal, to name a few. An excerpt of her graphic memoir My Life in Movies was featured this spring in Fourth Genre, along with a companion essay they commissioned about collaboration in graphic work. She taught writing in 2017-18 at Ohio’s HBCU, Central State University.

Gretchen Kalwinski’s work has been published in the Chicago Reader, Time Out Chicago and Featherproof Books. Kalwinski has appeared as a literary panelist for WGN radio and Chicago Tonight, and was awarded a 2009 Ragdale artist residency. She holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from Northwestern and her essay "Illiana" was recently included in Rust Belt Chicago: An Anthology.

Juan Martinez is a fiction writer. He was born in Bucaramanga, Colombia, and has since lived in Orlando, Florida, and Las Vegas, Nevada. His work has appeared in various literary journals and anthologies, including Ecotone, Glimmer Train, McSweeney's, TriQuarterly, Conjunctions, National Public Radio's Selected Shorts, Norton's Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories from the United States and Latin America, and The Perpetual Engine of Hope: Stories Inspired by Iconic Vegas Photographs. His collection of stories, Best Worst American came out from Small Beer Press in February 2017. He holds a PhD from the University of Nevada and is currently at work on a novel.

Christine Sneed is the author of the novels four books; the most recent is the story collection The Virginity of Famous Men. Her short stories and essays have appeared in The Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories, Ploughshares, The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and many other periodicals. She has received the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction, the Society of Midland Authors Award, and is a 2-time recipient of the Book of the Year from the Chicago Writers' Association. She is the faculty director of Northwestern University’s graduate creative writing and is also on the fiction faculty of the Regis University low-residency MFA program.

This event is free and open to the public.

 

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