February 1, 2013, Friday - Mentor Series Reading: Jude Nutter at The Loft

Tme: 7:00pm

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

Mentor Series Reading: Jude Nutter

The 2012-2013 Loft Mentor Series in Poetry and Creative Prose presents poetry mentor Jude Nutter reading along with program participants Kelly Hansen Maher (poetry) and Jason Francis O'Keane (fiction)
 
Kelly Hansen Maher lives in Northeast Minneapolis and attends Hamline University as a part-time writing student while working full-time as an attorney editor for Thomson Reuters. Kelly holds a BFA in theater from Emerson College, and a JD from the University of Minnesota. Kelly’s poems have been published in a handful of literary journals, and her plays have been staged in Seattle, Portland, and New York City. She’s at work on her first full-length poetry collection, and a book of personal nonfiction. She loves garden writing, museums, Lake Superior, and old English pubs.

Jason Francis O’Keane lives in Minneapolis with his wife and three daughters. He received his MFA from Hamline University, where he was an assistant fiction editor for Water~Stone Review. In his earlier life, he was a practicing aerospace engineer, but quit to become a stay-at-home dad and feed his writing habit.    

Jude Nutter was born in North Yorkshire, England, and grew up near Hannover, in northern Germany. Her first book-length collection, Pictures of the Afterlife (Salmon Poetry, Ireland), was published in 2002. The Curator of Silence (University of Notre Dame Press), her second collection, won the Ernest Sandeen Prize from the University of Notre Dame and was awarded the 2007 Minnesota Book Award in poetry. A third collection, I Wish I Had a Heart Like Yours, Walt Whitman (University of Notre Dame Press), was awarded the 2010 Minnesota Book Award in poetry and voted Poetry Book of the Year by ForeWord Review. In 2004/2005 she spent two months in Antarctica as a participant in the National Science Foundation’s Writers and Artists Program.