March 23, 2013, Saturday - Readings by Alicia Conroy, Kathleen Glasgow, Rebecca Kanner, & Molly Quinn at The Loft

Tme: 7:00pm

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

Readings by Alicia Conroy, Kathleen Glasgow, Rebecca Kanner, & Molly Quinn

Current Minnesota State Arts Board winners will read from their work.
 
Alicia L. Conroy of Minneapolis publishes fiction, features and reviews. Her story collection, Lives of Mapmakers, was published by Carnegie Mellon Univ. Press in 2006 and was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Awards. Conroy’s short stories have been published in literary journals including Ploughshares, Puerto del Sol, and Ontario Review. She has received a Jerome Foundation Travel Grant, Minnesota State Arts Board Grant, and was a finalist for both the Bush Artist Fellowship and the McKnight Artist Fellowship She has served on the steering committee for the Twin Cities local of the National Writers Union and the planning committee for the Twin Cities Book Festival, and taught at The Loft Literary Center.
 
Kathleen Glasgow received her MFA from the University of Minnesota, where she has been coordinating the Creative Writing Program since 2002.  Her work has appeared in Bellingham Review, Cimarron Review, Clackamas Literary Review, and other journals. She has received grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the SASE/Jerome Foundation.
 
Rebecca Kanner holds a Master of Fine Arts in Fiction Writing from Washington University in St. Louis. Her writing has won an Associated Writing Programs Award and a Loft mentorship Award. Her stories have been published in numerous journals including The Kenyon Review and The Cincinnati Review. Her personal essay, “Safety,” is listed as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2011. She is a freelance-writer and teaches writing at the Loft in Minneapolis. Her first novel, Sinners and the Sea, will be published by Howard Books, an imprint of Simon and Schuster, April 2, 2013.
 
Molly Quinn studied English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Nursing at Normandale Community College. Her fiction has been published in River City and Blithe House Quarterly. She is the recipient of a Loft Mentor Series Award and a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. She is a Registered Nurse in Inpatient Psychiatry at Hennepin County Medical Center, and is currently working on a collection of short stories inspired by this experience. She and her husband live and write in Minneapolis.