Please join novelist Paulette Livers and me as we share our prose at Archie’s Cafe in Rogers Park. (Archie’s has amazing food and baked goods, so bring your appetite.)

Archie’s Cafe
1228 West Loyola
Chicago, Illinois 60626

About Paulette Livers

Paulette Livers is the author of the novel Cementville (Counterpoint Press), which received the Elle Lettres Prize, and was a finalist for the Center for Fiction's Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, the Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year, and the Kentucky Literary Award. Among recognitions for her work are fellowships and grants from the Artcroft Foundation, Aspen Writers Foundation, The MacDowell Colony, Ox-Bow Artist Residence, Vermont Studio Center, and Virginia Center for Creative Artists, and Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. While earning the MFA at University of Colorado, she taught creative writing, worked as a speechwriter to the Chancellor, and curated the University’s reading series. The recipient of the Meyerson Prize for Fiction at Southwest Review, her work has been honorably-mentioned or shortlisted for the International Bridport Prize, Lamar York Prize, Mosher Prize for Short Fiction, and Red Hen Press Short Story Award, among others. She teaches at Story Studio Chicago and is Creative Director at Mighty Sword Studio, specializing in fine book design, editing, and helping publishers, writers, and artists bring their work to the printed page.