Description:

Recent creative writing graduates of the MFA in Prose and Poetry and MA in Writing Programs at SPS will read original work. Featured readers will include Nimra Chohan, Rachel Kennedy, Natalia Nebel, Michele Popadich, Josh Reuss, and Irene Yeh. Faculty Director Christine Sneed will emcee.  Snacks and mingling begin at 6pm, program at 6:30pm.

Admission is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Please RSVP here.

Reader bios:

Nimra Chohan graduated from Northwestern's MFA in Prose and Poetry in 2023. She has completed a short story collection and is also working on a novel. A native of Queens, New York, she now lives in Chicago, which she likes to explore in her free time.

Rachel Kennedy is a Masters of Arts in Writing Graduate from Northwestern. She earned her degree with the School of Professional Studies in the Winter Quarter of 2024 after approximately 2 and a half years in the program. Having grown up in the west suburbs of Chicago, Rachel is currently working at the Northwestern Bookstore as a textbook supervisor and a copy editor for Barnes & Noble College. 

Natalia Nebel is a writer whose fiction, essays and book reviews have been published in a variety of literary journals, including Fifth Wednesday Review, Burnside Review,  Free Verse, The Jet Fuel Review, Hawaiian Pacific Review, Newcity and Chicago Quarterly Review. A Pushcart Prize nominee, her personal essay “Lazarus” was named a notable essay in the Best American Essays 2019. She received an MFA in Prose and Poetry from Northwestern University and founded the literary reading series Sunday Salon Chicago. She’s grateful to Northwestern for including her in this reading!

Michele Popadich graduated from Northwestern University with an MFA in Creative Nonfiction. Her work focuses on experimental and lyric form with hints of poetry. Her essays and poetry have appeared in various online publications including Hippocampus Magazine and The Normal School. She works as Product Manager and lives with her partner and cat in Minneapolis. You can read her more of her work at: http://www.miche1e.com/work

Josh Reuss is a recent graduate of Northwestern University's MFA program. He writes short stories, and much of his work draws from his experience serving in the United States Navy. Currently he teaches Language Arts in the Adult Education program at Oakton College. 

Irene Yeh has recently completed her MFA at Northwestern and is working on her first novel. As the child of Taiwanese immigrants and an overthinker, her stories tend to focus on Eastern-Western cultural differences, complex interpersonal relationships, and anything else that catches her curiosity. When she needs to shut her brain off, she likes to cycle or read about the strange and unknown.

Learn about humanities programming at the Northwestern University School of Professional Studies:

MFA in Prose and Poetry

MA in Writing

MA in Literature

MA in Liberal Studies

Undergraduate Major in English Writing

Undergraduate Major in Humanities

Post-Baccalaureate Certificates

Graduate Certificates

Certificates of Advanced Graduate Study

The NU Summer Writers' Conference

If you have questions about educational programming at SPS, please contact studysps@northwestern.edu.