Roosevelt Graduate Reading Next Thursday!

With all the readings by prize-winning poets, phenomenal fiction writers, and no-nonsense non-fiction writers that Roosevelt hosts, it is possible to forget they we're producing our own amazing, future-best-selling, thought-provoking, phrase-turning, movie-adaptation-forthcoming writers, too. Luckily, we will have a reminder of the talent and diversity of Roosevelt MFA students at our Spring 2012 Graduate Reading next Thursday. 

Join us as we celebrate three members of the Roosevelt MFA community.

Lydia Cesarz, poet, published in Roosevelt's own Oyez Review, who will be reading from her poetry thesis.

Jamilee Gerzon, fiction writer, who will be reading from her short story collection, The Cold Space Between Us.

and 

Katherine Palmer, fiction writer and outstanding teacher, who will be reading from her short story collection If the Lake is East, I Must Not Be Lost.


The reading will take place nest Thursday, April 12th at the Gage Gallery.  Doors will open at 4:30 for coffee, wine, food and congratulations, and the reading will begin at 5.

Palmer Recognized as Outstanding Educator

Katherine "Outstanding Educator Machine" Palmer

MFAer Katherine Palmer, who works as an English teacher at Jones College Prep High School (as well as taking classes at Roosevelt - Goodness!), has been named an Outstanding Educator by the University of Chicago! This is an award given to a high school teacher who has been identified by first year U of C students as influential in "opening new vistas and realms of discovery and channeling their private interests into productive paths for intellectual growth." 

Honoring Outstanding Educators for Three Decades!

For three decades, students at University of Chicago have nominated Educators that have inspired and literally changed the course of their lives! Not a small thing! Along with teaching, Katherine is currently working on her thesis, completing her teaching internship at Roosevelt, and finding the means to stop time, to get the appropriate sleep and food required for her impossibly busy schedule! In time for Thanksgiving, be thankful for teachers like Katherine, who, despite having full schedules, have managed to educate and inspire future generations! Give her a high-five when you see her! It's the least you can do!