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Breakfast with the Authors
Saturday, June 23, 2012
We're pleased to announce our annual Breakfast with the Authors. This is an opportunity for people to meet and converse with our visiting authors and to hear them talk about their writing journeys in an informal and friendly atmosphere.
Cost: $25
Time: 8:30 am
Place: Hatcher Graduate Library.
Click here to order your tickets. Limited space so please don't delay!
Questions? Call Jeff at (734) 223-7443.
Featured Authors:
| Steve Amick |
Steve Amick has published two novels with Pantheon/Random House, The Lake, the River & the Other Lake and Nothing But a Smile, both Michigan Notable Books. His shorter work has appeared in McSweeney's, Playboy, The Southern Review, Story, Five Chapters, The New England Review, The New York Times, The Washington Post, on National Public Radio, as well as anthologies like the recent Ghost Writers: Us Haunting Them. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from George Mason University but has also dabbled in plays in Chicago, won a Clio for advertising, and putzed around with songwriting. Most recently, his story in The Michigan Quarterly Review received the Lawrence Foundation Award for the best fiction of 2011.
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| Scott Beal |
Scott Beal's poems have appeared recently in The Collagist, Indiana Review, Dunes Review, and in a split book with Rachel McKibbens and Aracelis Girmay entitled Jangle the Threads (Red Beard Press, 2010). He earned his MFA in 1996 from the University of Michigan. He teaches poetry and fiction workshops at the Neutral Zone and 826michigan, and serves as a writer-in-the-schools for Dzanc Books in Ann Arbor and for InsideOut Literary Arts in Detroit. He recently co-authored Underneath: The Archaeological Approach to Creative Writing with Jeff Kass (Red Beard Press, 2011). His manuscript Wait 'Til You Have Real Problems was a 2012 finalist for the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Prize from Pleiades Press.
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| Roger Bonair-Agard |
Roger Bonair-Agard is a native of Trinidad and Tobago and author of two collections of poems: tarnish and masquerade (Cypher Books, 2006) and GULLY (Cypher Books, Peepal Tree Press 2010). A Cave Canem fellow, Roger is a 2-time National Poetry Slam Champion and co-founder and Artistic Director of New York's louderARTS Project. Roger is an MFA candidate in the Stonecoast Program at the University of Southern Maine. He teaches at Fordham University in NYC and the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center in Chicago. He is poet-in-residence at Young Chicago Authors.
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| Kevin Coval |
Kevin Coval is author of the forthcoming, L-vis Lives! (Haymarket Books, Fall 2011), Everyday People and Slingshots (A Hip-Hop Poetica), named a Book of the Year finalist by the American Library Association. Coval has been called "the voice of the new Chicago" by Rick Kogan of The Chicago Tribune and is one of the most widely read poets in the country. He has performed in seven countries on four continents, toured the country, appeared on four seasons of HBO's Def Poetry Jam, and is Co-Founder of Louder Than a Bomb: The Chicago Youth Poetry Festival, the largest youth poetry festival in the world, which is the subject of the award-winning documentary by the same name. Coval is the Artistic Director of Young Chicago Authors and teaches at The School of the Art Institute in Chicago.
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| Shira Erlichman |
Shira Erlichman is a nationally acclaimed poet, fiction writer, musician and artist. A Pushcart Prize nominee who has toured the country with some of the nation's leading performers and writers, her prolific and unique style has brought her acclaim as "one of the most original and compelling voices in performance poetry." Her poetry has been featured in NARAL's National Pro-Choice campaign Free.Will.Power, as well as set to motion by the dancers of the Sound Dance Company. Her award-winning music has appeared in multiple independent films, and on NPR and national TV. She has shared stages with Ani Difranco, TuNe-YaRds and Coco Rosie. She has been independently recording and releasing her records for over 10 years. Born in Haifa Israel and raised in Brookline MA, she now lives in Brooklyn NY.
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| francine j. harris |
francine j. harris has recent work appearing in Rattle, Callaloo, Michigan Quarterly Review, and is the author of the recent chapbook, between old trees. She is a Cave Canem fellow, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and received an MFA in Poetry from the University of Michigan in 2011. Her first collection, allegiance, is scheduled for publication by Wayne State University Press as part of the Made in Michigan series in the spring of 2012.
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| Jeff Kass |
Jeff Kass teaches Creative Writing at Pioneer High School and Eastern Michigan University and is the Literary Arts Director at The Neutral Zone. He has won numerous poetry slam competitions and has had poems, stories and essays published in dozens of newspapers, magazines, journals and anthologies. His one-man performance poetica Wrestle the Great Fear debuted in April, 2009, his poetry chapbook Invisible Staircase was published by Winged City Press in January, 2010, and his short story collection Knuckleheads was published by Dzanc Books in April, 2011. From the front of the Room, a collection of essays about teaching is forthcoming from The Teacher's Voice in May, 2011, and a how-to-teach Creative Writing book is on its way from Red Beard Press and scheduled for release in June, 2011.
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| Aaron McCollough |
Aaron McCollough was raised in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He is the Librarian for English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan's Hatcher Graduate Library. He holds a PhD in English Literature from Michigan and an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His fifth book of poems, Underlight, is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse in November.
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| Zibby Oneal |
Zibby Oneal was born and grew up in Omaha, Nebraska during World War II. The first children's book she published was set in that place and at that time. During childhood she was constantly making up stories about the War for herself and her younger sister. In high school she started writing short stories, mainly about the pains of unrequited love. At Stanford University and subsequently at Michigan she took a lot of creative writing classes and graduated with a BA.
For a time she was a lecturer in the English department at the U of M. Since, she has concentrated on writing fiction and has published nine books intended for children and young adults. She's married, has two children and three grandchildren and is presently leading a group involved in memoir writing at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.
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| Merrie Haskell |
Merrie Haskell's first book, The Princess Curse, debuted in 2011, and was a Junior Library Guild selection. Her next book, Handbook for Dragon Slayers, is forthcoming in Summer 2013 from HarperCollins.
Merrie attended the Residential College of the University of Michigan, where she earned a BA in biological anthropology. Her short fiction has appeared in Asimov's, Nature, Strange Horizons, and Unplugged: The Year's Best Online Fiction. She lives in Saline, Michigan, with her husband and stepdaughter. Merrie works in a library in Ann Arbor with more than 7 million books, and she finds this to be just about the right number.
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