The Fall 2007 Reading Series
Sponsored by Ragtag Cinema and the Center for the Literary Arts at MU.
The Fall 2007 Reading Series
Sponsored by Ragtag Cinema and the Center for the Literary Arts at MU.
September 11:Matt Dube teaches creative writing at William Woods University. His short stories have appeared in Gulf Coast, Cimarron Review, Rainbow Curve, and elsewhere. He edits fiction for the online magazine H_NGM_N and is an associate fiction editor for del Sol Press. He's at work collecting his stories into a more exciting book than it was last time he brought them all together, as well as drafting a collection of essays on comic books. Katy Didden grew up in Washington DC and has lived in St. Louis, Seattle, Paris, and Chicago. She is a second year Ph.D. student at Mizzou in Literature and Creative Writing. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as Crab Orchard Review, Crazyhorse, and Calyx. She also has work in the DC Poets Against the War Anthology.October 2:John Gallaher is the author of Gentlemen in Turbans, Ladies in Cauls (Spuyten Duyvil, 2001) and co-editor of The Laurel Review. His poetry has recently been published in Boston Review, Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, FIELD, jubilat, The Journal, and Ploughshares. He holds graduate degrees from Texas State University and Ohio University and lives in rural Missouri. Rebecca Aronson's first book Creature, Creature (Main-Traveled Roads Press) was released in June. She has published poems in The Georgia Review, Tin House, Cimarron Review, Quarterly West, Cranky, and other journals. She was the 2006 winner of The Loft Literary Center's Speakeasy Prize, judged by Jane Hirshfield. She teaches writing at Northwest Missouri State University where she also edits The Laurel Review. John Estes is a doctoral student and instructor at the University of Missouri-Columbia. His chapbook, Breakfast with Blake at the Laocoön, is available from Finishing Line Press; recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Circumference, Zoland Poetry, Ars Interpres, The Journal, Notre Dame Review and Literary Imagination.November 6:Ethan Paquin is the author of four books of poems, most recently My Thieves (Salt, 2007). The founder of Slope and editor of Slope Editions, he lives and teaches in Buffalo, NY. Michael Dumanis is the author of My Soviet Union, winner of the 2006 Juniper Prize for Poetry from the University of Massachusetts Press, and coeditor of the anthology Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande, 2006). He is an Assistant Professor of English at Cleveland State University and the Director of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center. Patrick Lane is a fiction writer from Memphis, TN. He received his M.F.A. from the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) and is working on his Ph.D. in Creative Writing at Mizzou.December 4:R.M. Kinder is the author of An Absolute Gentleman, a literary mystery (Counterpoint Press, October 2007), and two award-winning short story collections, A Near Perfect Gift (U. of Michigan Press, 2005) and Sweet Angel Band (Helicon Nine Editions, 1991). Her most recent work appears in Descant, Notre Dame Review, and Big Muddy. Dustin Michael is a Ph.D. student in English with an emphasis in creative nonfiction at the University of Missouri. His very first publications appeared in The Journal of Asinine Poetry, which occupies a special place in his heart to this day. When he's not writing, Dustin spends his hours hoping against hope that some publishing type will finally create The Journal of Asinine Creative Nonfiction. |