Author Sandi Wisenberg to speak at ECC Writers Center Reading Series Feb. 21
Elgin Community College will welcome Sandi Wisenberg as the first featured guest of the spring 2019 Writers Center Reading Series on Thursday, Feb. 21.
The event begins at 7:30 p.m. in the ECC Arts Center, Building H, Room H142, 1700 Spartan Drive, Elgin.
S.L. Wisenberg is the author of "The Sweetheart Is In," "Holocaust Girls: History, Memory and Other Obsessions" and "The Adventures of Cancer Bitch."
She was co-director of Northwestern University's MA/MFA Program in Creative Writing for 10 years, has been published in numerous anthologies and literary magazines, and has read her work on WBEZ radio.
Wisenberg has been awarded grants and fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown; Illinois Arts Council; and National Endowment for the Humanities. For many years, she was the nonfiction editor of Another Chicago Magazine and is currently the editor of the online-only publication. Wisenberg teaches at the University of Chicago Graham School and works as an editor and writing coach.
All Writers Center readings are free and open to the public.
A pre-reading dinner with Wisenberg will be held at 5:30 p.m. Books will be available for sale and signing.
Author Mira T. Lee will be the next Writers Center Reading Series guest on Thursday, March 14 at 7:30 p.m. Lee's debut novel, "Everything Here Is Beautiful," was selected as a Top 10 Debut title for 2018 by the American Booksellers Association, and named a Top Winter/2018 Pick by more than 30 news outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, and O Magazine, among others. Her short fiction has appeared in journals such as the Southern Review, the Missouri Review, and Harvard Review, and has twice received special mention for the Pushcart Prize.
Poet Remica Bingham-Risher will visit on Thursday, April 25 at 7:30 p.m. The Phoenix, Arizona, native is a Cave Canem fellow and Affrilachian Poet. Among other journals, her work has been published in The Writer's Chronicle, New Letters, Callaloo and Essence. She is the author of "Conversion," winner of the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award, "What We Ask of Flesh," shortlisted for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and "Starlight & Error," winner of the Diode Editions Book Award. She is the director of quality enhancement plan initiatives at Old Dominion University. She resides in Norfolk, Va., with her husband and children.
For dinner reservations or more information, contact Rachael Stewart at rstewart@elgin.edu.