April 12, 2013, Friday - Mentor Series Reading: Jewell Parker Rhodes at The Loft

Tme: 7:00pm

Location: The Loft, Performance Hall, 1011 Washington Avenue South

Mentor Series Reading: Jewell Parker Rhodes

The 2012-2013 Loft Mentor Series in Poetry and Creative Prose presents fiction mentor Jewell Parker Rhodes reading with Jennifer Bowen Hicks (nonfiction) and Paige Riehl (poetry).
 
Jennifer Bowen Hicks has published work in North American Review, The Iowa Review, The Rumpus, Brevity, Defunct Magazine, and Connotation Press. She is the Nonfiction Editor for the literary journal Hunger Mountain. She started a prison writing workshop in the Twin Cities, where she lives with her husband, two sons, and a mess of backyard chickens.
 
Paige Riehl is a poet and college faculty who teaches literature, composition, and creative writing. Her poetry and prose have appeared in several literary publications, including Meridian, Saint Paul Almanac, South Dakota Review, and Nimrod. She won first place in the 2011 Literal Latte Poetry Contest and was a finalist for the 2011 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry sponsored by Nimrod International Journal. Paige loves to travel and has explored 17 countries. She lives in Saint Paul with her husband and son.
 
Jewell Parker Rhodes is the author of Ninth Ward, a children’s book, the forthcoming children’s novel Sugar, as well as six novels for adults: Voodoo Dreams, Magic City, Douglass’ Women, Voodoo Season, Yellow Moon, and Hurricane and a memoir Porch Stories: A Grandmother’s Guide to Happiness. Her writing guides include Free Within Ourselves: Fiction Lessons for Black Authors and The African American Guide to Writing and Publishing Nonfiction. Among her honors are the American Book Award, two Arizona Book Awards, the National Endowment for the Arts Award in Fiction, the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award for Outstanding Writing, and the Black Caucus of the American Library Award for Literary Excellence. She is the Virginia G. Piper Chair in Creative Writing and Artistic Director of Piper Global Engagement at Arizona State University.
 
Presented in collaboration with the Givens Black Books Community Reading Program.