November 8, 2012, Thursday - New Rivers Press Publication Reading at The Loft

Tme: 7:00pm

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

New Rivers Press Publication Reading

New Rivers Press celebrates their 2012 fall releases with reading by Nick Healy, Sharon Suzuki-Martinez, Nick Knittel, and Tim Nolan.

Nick Healy's short stories have appeared in several publications, including North American Review, Speakeasy, Water~Stone Review, and Blueroad. His first collection of short stories, It Takes You Over, is New Rivers Press' 125th Many Voices Project prizewinner in prose.

With a decidedly Midwestern feel, It Takes You Over chronicles everyday life--from a letter to the editor exploding in local media to an older man arrested for hiring a prostitute. "It Takes You Over builds like a deceptively quiet, mesmerizing snowfall." — Nicole Helget

Sharon Suzuki-Martinez holds a PhD in English and fellowships from the Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies and Kundiman. The Way of All Flux is her first published collection and New Rivers Press' 126th Many Voices Project prizewinner in poetry.

"In a series of funny and intimate poems where unicorns, zombies, In-N-Out Burger, and a character named Oscar the Angry Swan reign supreme, Suzuki-Martinez offers up an enchanting and powerful deliverance." — Aime Nezhukumataqhil

Nick Knittel completed his MFA in fiction writing through Fairfield University and works as a medical editor in Madison, Wisconsin. In 2011, Charles Simic selected Knittel's collection of short stories, Good Things, as Fairfield's first-ever Fairfield Book Prize winner.

Good Things enchants with stories as dark and moving as your favorite Bruce Springsteen song. Characters move their way through not only a dead-end town, but a dead-end existence. Caught in complex relationships, they chronicle what it's like to be blue-collar and barely making it.

Tim Nolan's first book of poems, The Sound of It, was a 2009 Many Voices Project prize winner and a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award and the Midwest Booksellers' Award. In addition to multiple publications, eight of his poems have been featured on The Writer's Almanac. His latest collection is And Then.

"In these graceful meditations on the death of his father, on his own fatherhood, and on the trembling terrors and mysteries and miracles of life in America, Nolan reminds us, as the best writers do, that poetry is another way of letting the world speak to us." — George Bilgere.