February 5, 2013, Tuesday - Minnesota Emerging Writers Grant Reading at The Loft

Tme: 7:00pm

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

Minnesota Emerging Writers Grant Reading

William Breen, Katie Hae Leo, Juliet Patterson, Yuko Taniguchi, and Donna Trump, winners of the 2012 Minnesota Emerging Writers Grant, read from their work.
 
William Breen teaches writing and literature at Anoka-Ramsey Community College. His poetry has appeared in AQR: Alaska Quarterly Review and Measure. His poem “Cookie Monster Blue” was a Pushcart Prize XXXIII nominee. William is working on a middle-grade novel and lives with his wife and three youngest children in Saint Paul.
 
Katie Hae Leo is a poet, playwright, and essayist whose work has appeared in journals such as Asian American Literary Review, Water~Stone Review, Kartika Review, Asian American Poetry & Writing, and Asian American Plays for a New Generation. She holds an MFA in Creative from the University of Minnesota. She has received two Pushcart Prize nominations in nonfiction, as well as funding from the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Jerome Foundation, and The Playwright’s Center. She lives in Rochester.
 
Juliet Patterson is the author of The Truant Lover (Nightboat Books) and Threnody, forthcoming from Jackleg Press. Her writing has appeared in numerous journals, including Crazyhorse, Indiana Review, Water~Stone Review and elsewhere. Recent awards include a 2011 Arts & Letters Susan Atefat Prize in Nonfiction, the 2010 Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize, and fellowships from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Institute for Community and Cultural Development. She teaches at Hamline University and Saint Catherine University.
 
Yuko Taniguchi is the author of the poetry collection Foreign Wife Elegy and the novel The Ocean in the Closet, both published by Coffee House Press. She has received The Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Kiriyama Prize Notable Book, and the Gustavus Myers Center Outstanding Book Award Advancing Human Rights. She is an instructor of writing in the Center for Learning Innovation at the University of Minnesota Rochester and conducts creative writing workshops for the Mayo Medical School and the Mayo Foundation’s Cancer Center.
 
Donna Trump has published work in Ars Medica, Gray Sparrow Journal, Mslexia, Chautauqua, and Speakeasy. She received a 2010 Pushcart Prize nomination and was a winner of the 2007-2008 Loft Mentor Series in Poetry and Creative Prose. She holds degrees in Biology and Physical Therapy from Northwestern University, and has studied writing at the Loft and through the 2011 Tin House Writers Workshop with Benjamin Percy. Donna lives with her husband in downtown Minneapolis.