Sunday Reading Series: Paula Carter, Mark Turcotte, & Miles Harvey
@ Hungry Brain
2319 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Sunday, September 15th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
MILES HARVEY won the 2023 Journal Non/Fiction Prize for The Registry of Forgotten Objects, a collection of short stories released this fall by Mad Creek Books. He is the author of three works of nonfiction, The King of Confidence, Painter in a Savage Land and The Island of Lost Maps, a national and international bestseller. Harvey teaches creative writing at DePaul, where he chairs the Department of English, serves as director of the DePaul Publishing Institute and is a founding editor of Big Shoulders Books, a nonprofit, social-justice publisher.
PAULA CARTER is the author of the flash memoir collection No Relation, which was shortlisted for the Stanford Libraries William Saroyan International Prize. Her award-winning essays have appeared in The New York Times, USA Today, Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, Fourth Genre, and elsewhere. She was an Administrative Staff Fellow at the Bread Loaf Environmental Conference in 2022 and 2023, and her work has been supported by Ragdale and the Shannaghe Artists Residency. She serves on the organizing committee for the Washington Island Literary Festival, holds an M.F.A. from Indiana University, Bloomington, and teaches creative writing at Northwestern University.
MARK TURCOTTE (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe) has been an active member of Chicago’s thriving poetry scene since first arriving in the early 90s. He is author of four collections, including The Feathered Heart and Exploding Chippewas. His poetry and prose has appeared in many American and International journals, and is included in the first ever Norton Anthology of Native Nations poetry. He has been the recipient of awards from the Lannan Foundation and the Wisconsin Arts Board. He lives in Chicago where he is Distinguished Writer-In-Residence in the English Department at DePaul University.
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