May 30, 2013, Thursday - Publication Celebration with Ethan Rutherford and Matt Rasmussen at The Loft

Tme: 7:00pm

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

Publication Celebration with Ethan Rutherford and Matt Rasmussen
 
Help us celebrate two incredible first-time published authors and recent award winners.

Ethan Rutherford’s stories have appeared in Ploughshares, One Story, American Short Fiction, and The Best American Short Stories. He has taught fiction at Macalester, the University of Minnesota, and at The Loft Literary Center, and his work has received awards from the McKnight Foundation and the Minnesota State Arts Board. Born in Seattle, he now lives in Minneapolis with his wife and son. The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories is his first book.

Matt Rasmussen’s poetry has been published in Gulf Coast, Cimarron Review, H_NGM_N, New York Quarterly, Paper Darts, and at Poets.org. He’s received awards, grants, and residencies from The Bush Foundation, The Minnesota State Arts Board, Jerome Foundation, Intermedia Arts, The Anderson Center in Red Wing, MN, and The Corporation of Yaddo. He is a 2012 McKnight Artist Fellow, a former Peace Corps Volunteer, and teaches at Gustavus Adolphus College. His first book of poems, Black Aperture, won the 2012 Walt Whitman Award and will be published in 2013 by LSU Press. He’s a founding editor of Birds, LLC, a small, independent poetry press.