Presented by Indiana Review Indiana Blue Light
Join us in downtown Bloomington, Indiana for a dynamic evening of readings featuring Jennifer Givhan, Eve Ewing, and Brando Skyhorse. A Q & A hosted by Canvas Creative Arts Magazine will follow the event. Copies of our readers' books will be available for sale, including GIRL WITH DEATH MASK by Jennifer Givhan, winner of the 2017 IR / IU Press Blue Light Books Prize.
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Jennifer Givhan is a Mexican-American poet from the Southwestern desert. She is the author of Landscape with Headless Mama (LSU Press 2016), Protection Spell (University of Arkansas Press 2017), and Girl with Death Mask (IU Press 2018). Her honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a PEN/ Rosenthal Emerging Voices Fellowship, The Frost Place Latin@ Scholarship, the 2015 Lascaux Review Poetry Prize, and The Pinch Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in Best of the Net, Best New Poets, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, AGNI, and elsewhere. She is Editor-in-Chief at Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and lives with her family in New Mexico.
Dr. Eve L. Ewing is a sociologist of education and a writer from Chicago. She is the author of Electric Arches and Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side and the co-author of No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks. She is a scholar at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and many other venues.
Brando Skyhorse’s debut novel, The Madonnas of Echo Park (Simon & Schuster, 2010), received the 2011 PEN/Hemingway Award, and the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The book was also a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick. Take This Man: A Memoir (Simon & Schuster, 2014) was an Amazon Best Book of the Month selection and named by Kirkus Reviews as one the Best Nonfiction Books of the year. Skyhorse has also co-edited an anthology, We Wear The Mask: 15 Stories About Passing in America (Beacon Press, 2017). He has been awarded fellowships at Ucross Foundation and the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference. Skyhorse is an Associate Professor of English at Indiana University in Bloomington.
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