January 18, 2013, Friday - Mentor Series Reading: Jack El-Hai at The Loft

Tme: 7:00pm

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

Mentor Series Reading: Jack El-Hai

The Loft at Open Book (Performance Hall)
 
The 2012-2013 Loft Mentor Series in Poetry and Creative Prose presents nonfiction mentor Jack El-Hai reading along with program participants MaryAnn Franta Moenck (poetry) and Amy C. Sullivan (nonfiction).
 
MaryAnn Franta Moenck writes poetry and nonfiction. Her poems have appeared in Nimrod, Cimarron Review, and Water~Stone Review. She has been a judge for the WriteNow! High School writing contest, formerly a reader for Bosphorus Art Project Quarterly, and board member on the Loose-Leaf Poetry Series. MaryAnn and her blacksmith husband divide their time between their home in Maplewood and the family farm near Caledonia.
 
Amy C. Sullivan is a writer, historian, and feminist educator who considers her most meaningful employment helping low-income single mothers pursue higher education. Amy has a BA and MA from the University of Oklahoma and is completing her dissertation at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She studies women’s history, children’s history, and the history of medicine.  Raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Amy now lives, cooks, and gardens in Minneapolis with her family.
 
Jack El-Hai has contributed articles and essays to The Atlantic, Scientific American Mind, Wired, American Heritage, The History Channel Magazine, and many other publications. His books include The Nazi and the Psychiatrist (forthcoming in 2013), The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness (recently adapted as a TV pilot for HBO), and Lost Minnesota: Stories of Vanished Places.  He received an MFA in creative writing and literature from Bennington College and has taught at the University of Minnesota, the Mayo Clinic, Split Rock Arts Program, and the Loft. A past president of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, he has won a Minnesota Book Award, a Loft McKnight Fellowship in Creative Prose, and grants from the Jerome Foundation and the Center for Arts Criticism.