Nonfiction Writing Program graduate Mieke Eerkens will read from All Ships Follow Me: A Family Memoir.  "The confluence of conflicting war traumas fuels the emotional heart of Mieke Eerkens' insightful narrative. All Ships Follow Me is an excavation of the scars of war drawn from personal interviews, archival documents, and immersion in the physical and psychic spaces of the past. It is also an imaginative quest to understand how trauma influences generations, sometimes directly through...

Presented by Prairie Lights Bookstore... Roz Chast and Patricia Marx : WHY DON’T YOU WRITE MY EULOGY NOW SO I CAN CORRECT IT?: A Mother’s Suggestions Every mother knows best, but New Yorker writer Patty Marx’s knows better. Patty has never been able to shake her mother’s one-line witticisms from her brain, so she’s collected them into a book, accompanied by full color illustrations by New Yorker staff cartoonist Roz Chast. These snappy maternal cautions include: If you feel guilty about...

Erin McGraw will read from and talk about her new story collection Joy: and 52 Other Very Short Stories. "This quintessential collection of stories serves as an homage to the form while showcasing McGraw’s stunning talent and deep empathy for the idiosyncrasies, small joys, and despairs of human nature." ―Publishers Weekly (starred review) Erin McGraw is also the author of six novels and story collections, including Lies of the Saints, The Baby Tree, and Better Food for a Better World. She...

Sabrina Orah Mark is the author of the poetry collections The Babies and Tsim Tsum. Wild Milk is her first book of fiction. She lives in Athens, Georgia with her husband, Reginald McKnight, and their two sons. About the Book: Wild Milk is like Borscht Belt meets Leonora Carrington; it’s like Donald Barthelme meets Pony Head; it’s like the Brothers Grimm meet Beckett in his swim trunks at the beach. In other words, this remarkable collection of stories is unlike anything else you’ve read....