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First Friday Book Talk & Reading w LeeAnn Roripaugh
First Friday Book Talk & Reading w LeeAnn Roripaugh

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Author of Reveal Codes. 

Date: Friday, June 7, 2024
Time: 12 pm CENTRAL TIME
Format: Zoom
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Winner of the 2022 Moon City Short Fiction Award

“These exquisitely written, intelligently compressed stories are filled with characters on precipices, navigating borders of disillusionment and despair. I was transfixed by them all. This book is pure heart.”

—Peter Kispert, author of I Know You Know Who I Am: Stories

 


SPECIAL GUEST HOST: Amy Hassinger.
Amy Hassinger is the author of three novels: After the Dam; Nina: Adolescence; and The Priest's Madonna. Her writing has been translated into five languages and has won awards from Creative Nonfiction, Publisher's Weekly, and the Illinois Arts Council. Her work has appeared in numerous venues, including The New York Times, Creative Nonfiction, The Writers' Chronicle, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and she teaches at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
 

 

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Lee Ann Roripaugh is the author of four volumes of poetry, the most recent of which, Dandarians, was released by Milkweed Editions in September 2014.  Her second volume, Year of the Snake (Southern Illinois University Press), was named winner of the Association of Asian American Studies Book Award in Poetry/Prose for 2004, and her first book, Beyond Heart Mountain (Penguin Books), was a 1998 winner of the National Poetry Series.  The recipient of a 2003 Archibald Bush Foundation Individual Artist Fellowship, she was also named the 2004 winner of the Prairie Schooner Strousse Award, the 2001 winner of the Frederick Manfred Award for Best Creative Writing awarded by the Western Literature Association, and the 1995 winner of the Randall Jarrell International Poetry Prize.  Her short stories have been shortlisted as stories of note in the Pushcart Prize anthologies, and two of her essays have been shortlisted as essays of note for the Best American Essays anthology.  Her poetry and short stories have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies.  Roripaugh is currently a Professor of English at the University of South Dakota, where she serves as Director of Creative Writing and Editor-in-Chief of South Dakota Review.

Special Guest Host: Amy Hassinger Amy Hassinger is the author of three novels: After the Dam; Nina: Adolescence; and The Priest's Madonna. Her writing has been translated into five languages and has won awards from Creative Nonfiction, Publisher's Weekly, and the Illinois Arts Council. Her work has appeared in numerous venues, including The New York Times, Creative Nonfiction, The Writers' Chronicle, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and she teaches at University of Illinois.
 

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