April 13, 2012, Friday - Mentor Series: Marlon James at The Loft

Time: 7:00pm

Location: The Loft, 1011 Washington Avenue South

Mentor Series: Marlon James
 
The Loft Mentor Series in Poetry and Creative Prose presents fiction mentor Marlon James reading from his work along with program participants Patrick Nathan (fiction) and Kaethe Schwehn (nonfiction).

Marlon James was born in Kingston, Jamaica. His first novel, John Crow’s Devil, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His second novel, The Book of Night Women, received the 2010 Minnesota Book Award for Fiction. He is a professor of literature and creative writing at Macalester College and divides his time between Minnesota, New York, and Jamaica.

Patrick Nathan (fiction) is the managing editor of Xenith, a literary webzine, and the founder of Mill City Bibliophile, a blog on all things local and literary. He fell in love with literature at the University of Minnesota, where writers such as García Márquez, Saramago, and Nabokov tore him away from architecture, despite financial counseling from his family. He writes his first drafts on a 1940 LC Smith Super-Speed, which is a machine that lacks Wi-Fi.

Kaethe Schwehn (nonfiction) studied creative writing at the University of Montana and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her poems have appeared in journals such as Crazyhorse, jubilat, The New Orleans Review, and Minnesota Review. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has been the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize. She lives in Northfield with her husband and daughter.