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Breakfast with the Authors
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Come share a meal with some of our Guest Authors. Here is a chance to meet and chat with them on a personal level, get to know them, and learn more about their experiences in the world of writing. Besides meeting your table's author, you will have a chance to hear all the authors describe their work to the whole gathering. It should be a fun and entertaining experience!
Cost: $20.
Time: 8:30 am - 9:45 am.
Place: Hatcher Graduate Library, 913 S. University Ave. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 (Enter on north side of building that faces the University of Michigan Diagonal Walkway).
Parking: The City of Ann Arbor has numerous meters and parking structures for use near the Graduate Library. We recommend using the parking structure located on Maynard Street between East William and East Liberty (see the Central & South Campus map) or the William-Fourth or the Ann-Ashley Street structures. The rate is $.80 cents per hour.
Click here to order your tickets. Limited space so please don't delay!
Featured Authors:
| Mistress of Ceremonies - Charity Nebbe |
Charity Nebbe spent her childhood wandering the prairies and woodlands of Iowa. Now she explores the woods near Dexter, Michigan where she lives with her husband, daughter, and son. They share their small home with three wonderful mutts, five lazy housecats, and two cats that are quite busy.
When she’s not out walking in the woods with dogs and kids, Charity hosts public radio programs on Michigan Pubilc Radio in Ann Arbor. Our Walk in the Woods is her first book for children.
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| Brenda Bentley |
Brenda Bentley published Riverwalks Ann Arbor in 2009. She and her husband had both earned graduate degrees from the University of Texas before moving to Ann Arbor in 1992 where they raised their son and daughter. Brenda spent many of those years studying Ann Arbor history, geography, pedestrian pathways, and water courses, and she also crossed into the foreign land of map-making; the walking guide she produced reflects her love for these subjects. Under the umbrella of her company, Citywalks, the author is currently working on several other walking guides for the mid-west region.
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| Michael Byers |
Michael Byers is a fiction writer based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He is a graduate of Oberlin College and of the University of Michigan Creative Writing MFA Program. His first book, The Coast of Good Intentions, is a collection of short stories set in his native Pacific Northwest. His second book (and first novel), Long for this World, is set in his hometown of Seattle, Washington, and tells the story of a geneticist facing an ethical dilemma that might lead to a cure for a fatal childhood disease. Excerpts of his work appear in Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts. Byers teaches fiction writing in the English Department at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Michael's new novel, Percival's Planet, will be released in 2010.
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| V.V. Ganeshananthan |
Sugi is a graduate of Harvard College, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, where she was a Bollinger Fellow specializing in arts and culture journalism. She has written for The Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, among others. She now teaches at the University of Michigan where she is the Zell Visiting Professor of Creative Writing. Her first novel, Love Marriage, was published in 2008.
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| Aracelis Girmay |
Aracelis Girmay is the author of Teeth, a collection of poems published by Curbstone Press in 2007. Her poems have also been published in Ploughshares, Bellevue Literary Review, Indiana Review, Callaloo, and MiPOesias, among other journals. Her collage-based picture book, Changing, Changing: Story and Collages, was published by George Braziller in 2005. She has been a featured reader at the Udi Aloni Project Room, Studio Museum in Harlem, Bowery Poetry Club, & prisons in Trenton & Manhattan. A Cave Canem fellow, Girmay teaches writing workshops in New York & California.
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| Katie Mattie |
Katie Mattie, a Senior at Ypsilanti High School, is the author of MAJIC and the Oracle at Delphi, the first of a four book series. She completed the first novel during her sophomore year and is putting the finishing touches on the second installment. The manuscript is currently being reviewed by three major publishing houses through the efforts of her agent, Robert Thixton of Pinder Lane and Garon-Brookes Associates. An accomplished musician, student and athlete, Katie looks forward to a long career in writing and broadcast journalism.
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| Rachel McKibbens |
Rachel McKibbens was born in Anaheim, CA. She is a member and co-founder of the Right Coast Writers Brigade. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including World Literature Today, The New York Quarterly and Bowery Women: Poems. Among other honors, she is a New York Foundation of the Arts Poetry Fellow, a Pushcart nominee, and the 2009 Women's Individual World Poetry Slam champion. She has read her work at universities, schools, galleries and various other venues across the nation. She teaches poetry and creative writing across the country at all levels. An ex-punk rock chola with five children, she lives in upstate New York with writer Jacob Rakovan and four of their children. Her first book of poetry, Pink Elephant, was published in 2009.
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| Ann Pearlman |
Ann Pearlman was born in Washington D.C. and, after moving around the Midwest gathering degrees and work experience, settled in Ann Arbor where her novel The Christmas Cookie Club is set. She studied writing at the University of Michigan, attended workshops at Sewanee and Squaw Valley Writers' Conferences and published her first book, Getting Free: Women and Psychotherapy in 1982. Keep the Home Fires Burning: How to Have an Affair With Your Spouse, followed in 1985, and garnered the attention of the Oprah Winfrey Show and several other TV talk shows. Her memoir, Infidelity, was nominated for a Pulitzer and made into a Lifetime movie by Lionsgate. Inside the Crips, with a foreword by Ice T, took readers into the life of a Crip gang member and the California Prison system. The Christmas Cookie Cookbook, a nonfiction book on starting your own cookie club, will be available in November 2010. The Christmas Cookie Club has been optioned for a feature film and Ann is keeping her fingers crossed the filming will occur in Ann Arbor.
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| Keith Taylor |
Poet and writer Keith Taylor coordinates the undergraduate program in creative writing at the University of Michigan and formerly managed Shaman Drum Bookshop. He directs the Bear River Writer's Conference and works as an editorial consultant to Dzanc Books. He has published eleven volumes: collections of poetry and short fiction, edited volumes, and translations. His work has appeared in such publications as Story, The Los Angeles Times, Alternative Press, The Southern Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Notre Dame Review, The Iowa Review, Witness, Chicago Tribune, and Hanging Loose. His most recent book, If the World Becomes So Bright, was published in 2009 by Wayne State University Press. Recently, he contributed an entry on Ernest Hemmingway to A New Literary History of America published by Harvard University Press.
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Questions? Call Kathy at (734) 369-3366.
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