Join us at the Evanston Art Center for readings by selected Chicago Quarterly Review contributors! Featuring LOUISE LEBOURGEOIS, DIPIKA MUKHERJEE, NATALIA NEBEL, SIGNE RATCLIFF and ELEANOR SPIESS-FERRIS.
LOUISE LEBOURGEOIS is a painter and writer living in Chicago. She earned her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago an MFA in Painting from Northwestern University, and an MFA in Creative Writing-Nonfiction from Columbia College Chicago. LeBourgeois has exhibited her work throughout the United States and in Italy, Japan and the Netherlands. Her essays have been published in the Chicago Quarterly Review and The Rumpus.
DIPIKA MUKHERJEE is the author of the novels Shambala Junction which won the UK Virginia Prize for fiction, and Ode to Broken Things, which was longlisted for the Man Asia Literary Prize. Her short story collection is Rules of Desire(Fixi, 2015) and she has two poetry collections. The Third Glass Of Wine (WriterÔÇÖs Workshop 2015), and The Palimpsest of Exile (Rubicon Press, 2009). Her work is included in The Best Small Fictions 2019 and she frequently writes for World Literature Today, Asia Literary Review and Chicago Quarterly Review as well as a literary column for The Edgein Malaysia. She is core faculty at StoryStudio Chicago, teaches at the Graham School at University of Chicago, and is affiliated to the Buffet Institute for Global Affairs at Northwestern University.
NATALIA NEBEL is a Pushcart prize nominated writer whose work has been published in literary journals that include Fifth Wednesday Review, Burnside Reviews, Free Verse, Prague Review and Seems. In 2017 and 2018, NorthwesternÔÇÖs MFA program nominated her for the AWP First Journal award in the essay and short story categories. She is Co-curator for Sunday Salon Chicago, a literary reading series that was named one of 2019ÔÇÖs Top 50 Chicago literary organizations.
SIGNE RATCLIFF is Contributing Editor of Chicago Quarterly Review. Her short fiction has appeared in CQR and Conclave Journal. Her work was selected as a finalist entry for the James Jones First Novel Fellowship. She lives in Chicago.
ELEANOR SPIESS-FERRIS is a visual artist and only recently turned to writing, blending childhood memories of her native New Mexico into short stories. She is cited as a significant American surrealist and is known for her narrative and feminist iconography. A one-person exhibition of new works will open in May 2020 at Hofheimer Gallery, Chicago.
Eleanor Spiess-FerrisÔÇÖ retrospective, DaphneÔÇÖs Sister, curated by Doug Stapleton, will also be on display in the EAC First Floor Gallery where the readings will take place.
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