THE 33 READING SERIES: APRIL 19TH

WES JAMISON is an MFA Nonfiction candidate, Follett Fellow, and Graduate Student Instructor at Columbia College Chicago. His essays and poems have appeared or are forthcoming in 1913: a Journal of Forms, Columbia Poetry Review, and South Loop Review: Creative Nonfiction + Art. He appreciates three-sentence bios for their poetic roundness, but is reminded that he is writing his bio, not a poem.

SARA PECK hails from south of the Mason-Dixon where people make proper sweet tea and know what kind of food grits are. When not studying the poetics of the Black Mountain School, you can find Sara participating in one of her many worldly hobbies such as making vegan snacks, haunting the Rainbo Club, and appreciating a good mustache. 

JENNIFER TATUM-COTAMAGAÑA's poems and essays are published and or forthcoming in 1913: a journal of forms, Columbia Poetry Review and South Loop Review's Creative Nonfiction + Art Online. From California, by way of Texas, she blogs, teaches, writes and makes breakfast for dinner. She is also in complete denial that Ryann Wahl is moving to New York City.

RYANN WAHL is a native of the Midwest and currently lives in Chicago, though tragically not for much longer.  After completing her MFA from Columbia College Chicago, she will move to the Big Apple to pursue one of her many talents, which include but are not limited to: securing seating at busy bars, hosting excellent parties, and, of course, writing lovely poems.

Robin Hemley Reading 4/17

Columbia College Chicago Presents

a Creative Writing-Nonfiction Program Event

Sponsored by the Department of English in the School of Liberal Arts & Sciences:

A reading by ROBIN HEMLEY

Hokin Hall
623 S. Wabash Ave., Room 109
Tuesday, April 17, 5:30p.m.
The event is free and open to the public.
 

Photo: Catherine Segurson
   

ROBIN HEMLEY is the author of eight books of nonfiction and fiction and the winner of many awards including a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship, The Nelson Algren Award for Fiction from the Chicago Tribune, The Story Magazine Humor Prize, an Independent Press Book Award, two Pushcart Prizes and many others.  His fiction, nonfiction, and poetry has been published in the U.S., Great Britain, Germany, Japan, the Philippines, Hong Kong, and elsewhere and he frequently teaches creative writing workshops around the world.  He has been widely anthologized and has published his work in such places as The New York Times, Orion, The Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, New York Magazine, and many of the finest literary magazines in the U.S.  The BBC is currently developing a feature film based on his book Invented Eden that tells the story of a purported anthropological hoax in the Philippines.  His popular craft book Turning Life Into Fiction has sold over 60,000 copies in its lifetime. His third collection of short stories, Reply All, is forthcoming in 2012 from Indiana University Press (Break Away Books) and The University of Georgia Press will publish his book A Field Guide for Immersion Writing: Memoir, Journalism, and Travel, also in 2012. He is a Senior Editor of The Iowa Review as well as the editor of a popular online journal, Defunct (Defunctmag.com) that features short essays on everything that’s had its day.  He currently directs the Nonfiction Writing Program at The University of Iowa and is the founder and organizer of NonfictioNow, a biennial conference that will convene in November 2012 in Melbourne, Australia.