Rebuilding a Life - With Authors Ann McGlinn, Alex Poppe, and Lynn Sloan
(moderated by Rachel Swearingen)
Date: Saturday, September 10
Time: 3pm
Location: Grace Place (637 South Dearborn Street), 1st Floor
Born in South Bend, Indiana, Born in South Bend, Indiana, Ann McGlinn has lived throughout the United States as well as abroad. In addition to her novels El Penco and Ride On, See You (Cuidono Press), her poems and short stories have appeared in Art/Life, Cutbank, Poem, Rosebud, Quarterly West, The Flexible Persona, and The Ekphrastic Review. She lives with her family in Chicago, Illinois. has lived throughout the United States as well as abroad. In addition to her novels El Penco and Ride On, See You (Cuidono Press), her poems and short stories have appeared in Art/Life, Cutbank, Poem, Rosebud, Quarterly West, The Flexible Persona, and The Ekphrastic Review. She lives with her family in Chicago, Illinois.
Alex Poppe is the author of four works of fiction: Duende by Regal House Publishing (2022), Jinwar and Other Stories by Cune Press (2022), Moxie by Tortoise Books (2019),and Girl, World by Laughing Fire Press (2017). Girl, World was named a 35 Over 35 Debut Book Award winner, First Horizon Award finalist, Montaigne Medal finalist, short-listed for the Eric Hoffer Grand Prize and was awarded an Honorable Mention in General Fiction from the Eric Hoffer Awards. Her short fiction has been a finalist for Glimmer Train’s Family Matters contest, a nominee for the Pushcart Prize and commended for the Baker Prize among others. Her non-fiction was named a Best of the Net nominee (2016), a finalist for Hot Metal Bridge’s Social Justice Writing contest and has appeared in the Los Angeles Review, the Laurel Review, Bust, Medium’s The Startup, and Bella Caledoniaamong others. She is a staff writer at Preemptive Love Coalition, and completed her third and fourth book of fiction with support from Can Serrat International Art Residency and Duplo-Linea De Costa Artist-in-Residency programs. She was thrilled to have been an artist-in-residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in spring 2021. When she is not being thrown from the back of food aid trucks or dining with pistol-packing Kurdish hit men, she writes.
Lynn Sloan is a writer and photographer. Her second novel, Midstream, called “luminous” by Foreword Reviews,appeared in 2022, and her first novel, Principles of Navigation, was chosen for Chicago Book Review’s Best Books of 2015. She is the author of the story collection This Far Isn’t Far Enough. An art book featuring her flash fictio, titled Fortune Cookies, was produced by Lark Sparrow Press in 2022. Her short fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, Shenandoah, American Literary Fiction, and included in NPR’s Selected Shorts. She graduated from Northwestern University, earned a master’s degree in photography at The Institute of Design, formerly the New Bauhaus, and exhibited her work nationally and internationally. For many years she taught photography in the MFA program of Columbia College Chicago, where she founded Occasional Readings in Photography and contributed to Afterimage, Art Week, and Exposure before turning to fiction writing.