Lia Purpura Reading 4/5

A reading by
LIA PURPURA

Alexandroff Center Lecture Hall
600 S. Michigan Avenue, Room 921
Thursday, April 5, 6:00p.m.
The event is free and open to the public.
 
    
Photo credit Alan Kolc.

LIA PURPURA is the author of seven collections of essays, poems and translations, most recently, Rough Likeness (essays, Sarabande Books, January 2012). Her awards include Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award (for the essay collection On Looking), NEA and Fulbright Fellowships, three Pushcart prizes, work in Best American Essays, 2011, the AWP Award in Nonfiction, and the Beatrice Hawley award in Poetry.  Recent work appears in Agni, Field, The Georgia Review, Orion, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and elsewhere.  She is Writer in Residence at Loyola University, Baltimore, MD and teaches in the Rainier Writing Workshop MFA Program.

THE 33 READING SERIES: March 15th

RYAN COURTWRIGHT is an MFA candidate at Columbia College.  He has been published by himself and in collaboration by The Sonora Review, The Normal School, Maggy Poetry, Anti-, Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing, Lo-Ball Magazine, Shampoo, and Pistola Magazine among others.

TOM NOWAK lives and writes in Chicago where he is an MFA candidate at Columbia College. His poems have appeared or are upcoming in Columbia Poetry Review, apt, and Arsenic Lobster. He is currently level 5 in Skyrim and keeps getting caught stealing horses.

INGRID SAGOR received her BA in English in 2010 from Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA—the most northwestern point of the continental US—and moved to the flatlands of Chicago in November 2010. For five years, Ingrid worked as a hairstylist and while she loved creating beautiful styles, she is happy to put her brain instead of her hands to work while studying at Columbia College in their MFA in Creative Nonfiction program. Her work has been published in Jeopardy Literary Magazine, Labyrinth, Free Verse and The Everett Herald. Ingrid is a Follett Fellow and a takes pride in her position as a Graduate Student Instructor.

EMILY SCHIKORA is an MFA candidate in Nonfiction at Columbia College Chicago where she is also a Graduate Student Instructor and Follet Fellow. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Cirque: A Literary Journal for the North Pacific Rim, Habit, and M Review. She grew up in Fairbanks, Alaska and now divides her time between Chicago and Portland, Oregon.