I’ll be signing copies of After the Dam, right next to Kristen Millares Young, who’ll be signing copies of her Subduction. Please stop by!

The Interdisciples

Saturday, December 17th, 3-5pm

$10-$20 suggested voluntary cover in the tip bucket

The Interdisciples is a newly-formed group which explores the process of interdisciplinary collaboration. Guided by Joy Yang (piano and theremin), the interdisciplinary faculty, student and community members include:

Amy Hassinger (creative writing, voice),
Jason Finkelman (electronics and Afro-Brazilian percussion),
Dr. Armand Beaudoin, Jr. (engineering, electronics and bassetto)
Laura Chiaramonte (dance)
Jake Metz (intermedia and spatial sound design)
Jonah Weisskopf (visual art projections)
Matthew Harsh (visual art projections)
Mark Smart (Aerospace engineering, SalMar software and video art)

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Be ready to be a part of the performance! We invite audience members to bring an item of significance to them, which will be placed on a table and incorporated into our improvisation. We also want to hear about what IDENTITY means to you! Comment below, DM, or we will be collecting written responses on the night.

We suggest a $10-20 minimum donation to support our creative endeavours and future opportunities. We appreciate it, and look forward to seeing you there!

I’ll be leading a webinar, hosted through Creative Nonfiction magazine, that explores the lyric essay as an accessible, protean, and genre-bending form.

In this online event, we will delve into the history of the lyric essay and observe the stylistic and technical conventions of the form. We will then use this study to inspire our own lyric essays, pulling apart the threads of self-meaning to begin our own creative pieces. The webinar will conclude with a Q&A, and all registrants will receive a recording.

To register and see more info, visit the Creative Nonfiction website.

I'll be giving a talk and leading a workshop on this subject as part of Metro Chicago's Off Campus Writers' Workshop series. Description below:

The pairing of the word “creative” with the word “nonfiction” makes some journalists wince, and with good reason. But “creative” doesn’t necessarily mean loose with the facts. It has more to do with how a piece of nonfiction is put together—with an innovative structure, maybe, or a searing attention to its own musicality, or some other unique effect that lifts the piece out of the routine and into the extraordinary. Together we’ll look at some striking examples from this broad genre, and do some creative experimenting of our own. Lecture/discussion/writing exercises. Appropriate for curious writers of any genre.

For more info, visit the OCWW website. 

I'll be giving a talk as part of ARTSwego's "Find Your Voice" series. Free and open to the public. 

I'll be signing books at this lovely little bookstore in Cable, Wisconsin. They share space with a delicious bakery and a fab pizza joint. Artists galore in this little town. Charm central. 

A reading at one of the best bookstores in the world!  

A joint reading with other Red Hen Press writers. More info to come. 

Book talk, reading, and Q&A at this lovely little library. 

I'll give an author talk about AFTER THE DAM at the Concord Free Public Library in beautiful downtown Concord, Massachusetts. Books for sale via the Concord Bookshop. 

Come celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Prairie Rivers Network, Champaign-Urbana's dynamic healthy rivers advocacy organization! There's a full slate of activities all afternoon. I'll be reading selections from AFTER THE DAM as part of the presentation "River of Hope: Save a Place. Change Your Life," starting at 3 p.m. in the Allerton Music Barn. Jane Addams Book Shop will be selling books. 

I'll be appearing at the monthly meeting of the UU Feminist Book Club when they discuss After the Dam. 

Poet Gale Walden and I will read selections from our books and talk about poetry, prose, and process. 

I'll read and sign copies of After the Dam with a group of fabulous authors (TBA) at Book Passage in Corte Madera, California. 

Poet Teri Grimm and I will be reading together as part of Georgia College's Visiting Writers' Series. Georgia College is located in Milledgeville, Georgia, home of Flannery O'Connor. 

Reading and signing in the Author's Corner of the Illini Union Bookstore. Come on down! 

I'll be appearing with the scintillating Liz Kay, author of Monsters: A Love Story. Don't miss it! 

I'm thrilled to be reading with renowned novelist and physicist Alan Lightman and eco-novelist Ellen Meeropol at Washington's Politics and Prose. Please join us. I'll be the tongue-tied one in the corner. 

Join me at the Cohasset Public Library for a reading, a signing, and a wine and cheese reception. Good company, too! Perfect gathering place for a cold winter's Sunday afternoon. 

Novelist Peter Geye, poet Juliet Patterson, and I will talk about place and process in this evening event at Magers and Quinn Booksellers. Come out and join the conversation! 

Artist Viktoria Ford will be showing her beautiful work inspired by river systems at the Illini Union Art Gallery. Her paintings will be interspersed with passages from After the Dam. I'll read from the book the night of the opening. Come meet Viktoria, see her work, and listen to writing about rivers, surrounded by art about rivers. 

I'll read a bit from After the Dam and talk a bit about writing it, and then open it up to conversation with the delightfully dynamic members of the OLLI community in Champaign, IL. Come join in the fun!  

A reading and book signing at Chicago's 57th Street Books, with poet Teri Grimm.