April 1, 2011, Friday - Mentor Series: Kristin Naca with Kimberly Brown and Carolyn Williams-Noren at The Loft

Time: 7:00pm

Location: The Loft, 1011 Washington Avenue South

The Loft Mentor Series in Poetry and Creative Prose presents poetry mentor Kristin Naca reading with program participants Kimberly Brown and Carolyn Williams-Noren.
Kimberly J. Brown (nonfiction) has been a Loft Mentor Series finalist and received honorable mention in the “Dogs and the Women Who Love Them” essay contest in 2009. Her poetry has appeared in What Have You Lost? and Seeds from a Silent Tree. A writer of both poetry and creative nonfiction, she is working on a memoir about surviving the 35W bridge collapse. She graduated from the University of Minnesota with a creative writing minor and currently works as a technical writer. She lives in Minneapolis with her wife, Rachel Anderson.

Carolyn Williams-Noren (poetry) works as a fundraiser and writer for two small non-profits. She also runs, gardens and writes essays about parenthood. Her poems have appeared in Spoon River Poetry Review and the online journal Literary Mama, among others. She was nominated for a 2009 Pushcart Prize and received a 2010 Blacklock Nature Sanctuary Fellowship. She lives in Minneapolis with her husband and two young daughters.

Kristin Naca (poetry) teaches courses in poetics, Asian American and Latino poetry and creative writing at Macalester College and is Consortium for Faculty Diversity (CFD) Fellow. Her poems have appeared recently in Harpur Palate and Indiana Review and are forthcoming in Bloom and Rio Grande Review. She has been a member of the Macondo Workshop in San Antonio, Texas, since 2002. Her first book Bird Eating Bird was selected by Yusef Komunyakaa for the National Poetry Series and published October 2009 by HarperCollins.