October 10, 2012, Wednesday - 6th Annual Motherhood and Words Reading at The Loft

Tme: 7:00pm

Location: The Loft, 1011 Washington Avenue South

Come to the Loft and spend the evening celebrating the 6th Annual Motherhood and Words Reading! This year's authors include:

Debra Gwartney is the author of Live Through This, a memoir published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2009, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the National Books for a Better Life Award, and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award. She is also co-editor, along with Barry Lopez, of Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape published by Trinity University ...Press. Debra has published in a many magazines, newspapers, and journals, including The New York Times' Modern Love column, Salon, Triquarterly Review, Kenyon Review, Washington Square Review, the American Scholar and many others. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Oregon Arts Commission, Literary Arts, the Wurlitzer Foundation, Hedgebrook, and the Washington DC Writers' Center. She lives in Western Oregon with her husband, the writer Barry Lopez, and teaches in the Pacific University Low Residency MFA Program.

Kate Hopper, founder and coordinator of the annual Motherhood & Words reading, is the author of Use Your Words: A Writing Guide for Mothers. She teaches writing online and at The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, where she lives with her husband and two daughters. Kate holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota and has been the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, a Minnesota State Arts Board Grant, and a Sustainable Arts Grant. Her writing has appeared in a number of journals, including Brevity, Literary Mama, and The New York Times online. Her memoir, Small Continents, is currently being circulated among interested editors. She is an editor at Literary Mama.

Amie Klempnauer Miller is the author of She Looks Just Like You: A Memoir of (Nonbiological Lesbian) Motherhood (Beacon Press), which was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award in 2011. Her other writing on parenting and gay families has appeared in the anthology, Confessions of the Other Mother: Nonbiological Lesbian Moms Tell All!; on Salon.com; in Brain, Child Magazine; in Greater Good Magazine; and in Minnesota Women’s Press. She has spoken about gay and lesbian families at the annual Rainbow Families conference (the largest gathering of gay-, lesbian-, bisexual- and transgender-headed families in the Upper Midwest), at high schools and colleges, and on the radio. Miller lives with her partner and daughter in St. Paul, Minnesota.

This event is free and open to the public.