April 20, 2012, Friday - Mentor Series: Leslie Adrienne Miller 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 Leslie Adrienne Miller reading from her work along with program participants Tami Mohamed Brown (nonfiction) and Nona Kennedy Carlson (fiction).

Leslie Adrienne Miller is author of five books of poetry, The Resurrection Trade and Eat Quite Everything You See from Graywolf Press, and Yesterday Had a Man in It, Ungodliness, and Staying Up For Love from Carnegie Mellon University Press. A sixth collection, Y, is forthcoming from Graywolf in spring 2012. Professor of English at the University of Saint Thomas, in Saint Paul, Minnesota, she holds a PhD from the University of Houston, an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, an MA from the University of Missouri, and a BA from Stephens College.

Tami Mohamed Brown (nonfiction) lives in Bloomington with her husband and daughter. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Hamline University and is the recipient of a Blacklock Nature Sanctuary Emerging Artist Fellowship. She has served as a mentor in Intermedia Arts’ WINGS program. Her writing appears on a regular basis in the Minnesota Women’s Press and has also been published in Minnesota Parent, Mizna, Colere, and Dust and Fire. 

Nona Kennedy Carlson (fiction) has published work in temenos, Central Michigan University’s international literary journal, Dust and Fire, a women’s anthology of writing and art, and MinnPost. She has working forthcoming in Talking Stick. Her short story, “Queer,” received the 2011 Jonis Agee Award for Fiction. She has a BS in Geography and Environmental Studies from The University of Colorado and lives in Minneapolis with her husband, their two beautiful daughters, and two boisterous black labs.