Northwestern Univ Annual Author & Student Reading Series

The Northwestern University Master of Arts in Creative Writing program is pleased to announce its annual Author / Student reading featuring faculty mentor Tara Ison (www.taraison.com). Tara Ison’s first novel, A Child out of Alcatraz (Faber & Faber, Inc.), was a Finalist for the 1997 Los Angeles Times Book Awards, “Best First Fiction.” Her new novel, The List, will be released by Scribner in March 2007. Her short fiction, essays and book reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Tin House, The Kenyon Review, Nerve.com, The Mississippi Review, LA Weekly, the Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine and Book Review, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Chicago Tribune, the San Jose Mercury News, and numerous anthologies. She is also the co-writer of the movie Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead. She is the recipient of Yaddo fellowships, Pushcart Prize nominations, a Rotary Foundation Scholarship for International Study and a Brandeis National Women’s Committee Award. MCW student readers include Heather Dewar, Rosemary Harp, and Andrea Uptmor.