Wednesday, April 14, 2010

S.L. Wisenberg to Visit RU Today!


Roosevelt University’s Creative Writing Program, Oyez Review, and the Department of Literature and Languages present

Sandi Wisenberg
Creative Nonfiction

Wednesday, April 14
5:00 p.m.
Roosevelt University’s Gage Gallery
18 S. Michigan Avenue (across from Millennium Park)

Sandi Wisenberg grew up in Houston and lives in Chicago. She is the author of two collections, The Sweetheart Is In, and Holocaust Girls: History, Memory, & Other Obsessions, and the recently published The Adventures of Cancer Bitch, based on her blog. She's published prose and poetry in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Tikkun, New England Review, Michigan Quarterly Review and many other places. She's currently the creative nonfiction editor of Another Chicago Magazine and co-director of Northwestern's M.A./M.F.A. in Creative Writing program. She also teaches in the University of Chicago's Graham School of General Studies, in the certificate program in creative writing. She's received a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

And don't forget to swing by early, anytime after 4:30 p.m. to partake in Roosevelt's Creative Writing Coffee & Convo mixer. See you there!

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