Saturday, Jan. 20, 2024
5:00 pm, Metropolis Cafe, 1039 W Granville
READERS:
Miles Harvey
…is the author of the national and international bestseller The Island of Lost Maps and the recipient of a Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellowship at the University of Michigan. His most recent book, The King of Confidence, was recognized by The New York Times, Booklist, Publisher’s Weekly, Lit Hub, the Chicago Tribune, and others. And his debut fiction collection, The Registry of Forgotten Objects, will be published in 2024. He teaches creative writing at DePaul University, where he is a founding editor of Big Shoulders Books and director of the DePaul Publishing Institute.
KP Peters
… is an emerging African American poet whose work has appeared in Poet Lore, Rigorous, Visitant Lit, Little Patuxent Review, and elsewhere. She studied creative writing at DePaul University and frequently appears around Chicago with Poems While You Wait.
Mira Cameron
… is a trans poet whose work can be found in JABBER, Anti-Heroin Chic, Corvus Review, and Boats Against the Current. They work for a food justice-based urban farm as a farmhand and grant writer and live in Chicago.
Scott Blackwood
(1965-2023)
… was the author of two novels, a story collection, and two narrative nonfiction books. His most recent novel, See How Small, won the 2016 PEN USA Award for Fiction and was named a Best Book of 2015 by NPR and an “Editor’s Choice” pick by The New York Times. His nonfiction books, The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records, Volumes I & II, earned him a Grammy nomination. His writing also appeared in the New England Review, American Short Fiction, Gettysburg Review, The New York Times, Chicago Magazine, and elsewhere. He spent time as the MFA Creative Writing Program Director at Roosevelt University and an Associate Professor at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and he was most recently the Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at Hollins University in Virginia.
Rengin Altay
… is a Chicago-based actress of stage and screen, best known for film appearances in Stranger Than Fiction and Light It Up. She has also performed locally at Steppenwolf, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, the Goodman, and elsewhere. She narrated the audiobook edition of Scott Blackwood’s See How Small and will be reading an excerpt in tribute.
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