May 17, 2013, Friday - Mentor Series Reading: David Small at The Loft

Tme: 7:00pm

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

Mentor Series Reading: David Small

The 2012-2013 Loft Mentor Series in Poetry and Creative Prose presents nonfiction mentor David Small reading along with program participants Ruby Pediangco (fiction) and Lin Salisbury (nonfiction).
 
Ruby Pediangco is the wife of an exceedingly supportive husband and together they have two very bright and funny children. An attorney by training, she works as the Director of Planned Giving for the Minnesota Orchestra. She began writing stories in her 1981 Judy Blume Diary and has continued writing in her spare time ever since. Her goal is to have a story published in a literary journal to share with her kids one day.
 
Lin Salisbury holds a BA from the University of Minnesota in Creative Writing. Her work has appeared in Snowshoemag.com, Minnesota Memories, and Fourth Genre. She is a Community Relations Manager for Barnes & Noble.
 
David Small was born and raised in Detroit. He earned an MFA from the Yale Graduate School of Art. He has illustrated over 40 picture books and has received the Caldecott Medal and The Christopher Medal. His graphic memoir, Stitches, was a finalist for the 2009 National Book Award. Stitches tells the story of Small's journey from sickly child to cancer patient, to the troubled teen who made a risky decision to run away from home at sixteen—with nothing more than the dream of becoming an artist. He and his wife, author Sarah Stewart, make their home in a historic manor house in southwest Michigan.
 
THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.