Short Story Month Panel: Yasmina Din Madden, Abby Geni, Barry Pearce and Cynthia Pelayo
Chicago Public Library present a panel of fascinating authors of new memoirs, featuring Melissa Fraterrigo ( The Perils of Girlhood ), Timothy J. Hillegonds ( And You Will Call It Fate: A Memoir ) and Alex Poppe ( Breakfast Wine ), moderated by Miles Harvey.
Melissa Fraterrigo is the author of the memoir in essays, The Perils of Girlhood , the novel Glory Days , and the short story collection The Longest Pregnancy . Her fiction and nonfiction has appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies from Shenandoah and The Massachusetts Review to storySouth , and Notre Dame Review . She has been a finalist for awards from Glimmer Train on multiple occasions, twice nominated for Pushcart Awards, and was the winner of the Sam Adams/Zoetrope: All Story Short Fiction Contest. She teaches creative writing at Purdue University and in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Butler University in Indianapolis. She also offers instruction on the art and craft of writing at the Lafayette Writers’ Studio in Lafayette, Indiana.
Alex Poppe spent most of 2006 to 2021 living abroad, much of the time in conflict or post-conflict zones such as Iraq, the West Bank, and Ukraine. Perhaps that is why her stories are written from an outsider’s point of view and fueled by real-life instances of injustice and despair. She wants her fiction to represent the world in which we live because she wants her stories to spur the conversations which drive social change. She is the author of four works of literary fiction and a memoir-in-essays about her wild ride through Iraq as an educator and humanitarian aid volunteer, Breakfast Wine . Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, Literary Hub, HuffPost, Informed Comment , and elsewhere.
Timothy J. Hillegonds is the author of the memoirs And You Will Call It Fate: A Memoir and The Distance Between, a finalist for the Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year and the Eric Hoffer Book Award. His work -…
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Melissa Fraterrigo is the author of the memoir in essays, The Perils of Girlhood , the novel Glory Days , and the short story collection The Longest Pregnancy . Her fiction and nonfiction has appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies from Shenandoah and The Massachusetts Review to storySouth , and Notre Dame Review . She has been a finalist for awards from Glimmer Train on multiple occasions, twice nominated for Pushcart Awards, and was the winner of the Sam Adams/Zoetrope: All Story Short Fiction Contest. She teaches creative writing at Purdue University and in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Butler University in Indianapolis. She also offers instruction on the art and craft of writing at the Lafayette Writers’ Studio in Lafayette, Indiana.
Alex Poppe spent most of 2006 to 2021 living abroad, much of the time in conflict or post-conflict zones such as Iraq, the West Bank, and Ukraine. Perhaps that is why her stories are written from an outsider’s point of view and fueled by real-life instances of injustice and despair. She wants her fiction to represent the world in which we live because she wants her stories to spur the conversations which drive social change. She is the author of four works of literary fiction and a memoir-in-essays about her wild ride through Iraq as an educator and humanitarian aid volunteer, Breakfast Wine . Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, Literary Hub, HuffPost, Informed Comment , and elsewhere.
Timothy J. Hillegonds is the author of the memoirs And You Will Call It Fate: A Memoir and The Distance Between, a finalist for the Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year and the Eric Hoffer Book Award. His work -…
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