Author Brockmeier to speak at ECC
Author Kevin Brockmeier is the next literary guest at the Elgin Community College Writers Center reading series on Thursday, April 9.
Brockmeier is scheduled to appear at 7:30 p.m. in the Visual and Performing Arts Center, Room VPA 191D, on the main campus, 1700 Spartan Drive, Elgin. The event is free and open to the public.
Brockmeier, of Little Rock, Ark. is the author of the novels "The Brief History of the Dead," "City of Names and Grooves: A Kind of Mystery," and "The Truth About Celia," and the short story collections, "The View from the Seventh Layer" and "Things That Fall from the Sky." His stories can be read in The Georgia Review, The Carolina Quarterly and McSweeney.
He also is the recipient of the Chicago Tribune's Nelson Algren Award, an Italo Calvino Short Fiction Award, a James Michener-Paul Engle Fellowship, two O. Henry Awards, and most recently, a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts.
Copies of Brockmeier's work are available for sale and signing at the event. Also a pre-reading dinner with the author is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. For reservations, contact Rachael Tecza at rtecza@elgin.edu.
For information about Writers Center activities, contact Rachael Tecza at (847) 214-7578 or rtecza@elgin.edu.