Celeste Ng will read from her new novel, Everything I Never Told You, at Literati Bookstore. She has an MFA from U-M.
RC alum Alyson Foster will read from her debut novel, God is an Astronaut. Set in the immediate future of civilian space tourism, the novel unfolds through the emails of one woman whose marriage is crumbling beneath her.
2nd Annual Zell Fellow Reading Series features poetry and prose from U-M Zell fellows and alums. This year’s series will feature themed readings.
Andy Mozina grew up in Brookfield, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee. He earned a master’s degree in creative writing from Boston University. He moved to St. Louis where he completed a doctorate in English literature at Washington University. Finally, after graduate school, he moved to Kalamazoo, Mich., in 1999 to teach literature and creative writing at Kalamazoo College. Mozina’s first collection, The Women Were Leaving the Men (2007, Wayne State University Press), is the winner of the 2008 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award for Fiction and a 2008 finalist for the Glassgow/Shenandoah Prize for Emerging Writers. He is also the author of Joseph Conrad and the Art of Sacrifice (2001, Routledge).
Kim Church’s debut novel, Byrd (Dzanc Books, 2014), has been long-listed for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize. Byrd is the fractured family history of a child secretly given up for adoption. Kim’s short stories have appeared in Shenandoah, Painted Bride Quarterly, Mississippi Review, the Norton anthology Flash Fiction Forward, and elsewhere. A Pushcart Prize nominee, she has received fellowships from the North Carolina Arts Council, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Millay Colony for the Arts, and Vermont Studio Center. She lives with her husband, artist Anthony Ulinski, in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Jesmyn Ward won the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction and a 2012 Alex Award for her second novel Salvage the Bones, a story about familial love and community covering the 10 days preceding Hurricane Katrina, the day of the cyclone, and the day after. Ward’s Memoir, Men We Reaped, was published in 2013; she is reading and signign in support of its paperback release. Ward is a Zell Writer’s program alum, and was the John and Renée Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi in 2010–11. In April 2014, she joined the faculty of Tulane University.
