Women Writers Series
Guild Complex
Sharon Solwitz has received literary prizes including the Pushcart, The Dan Curley Award, the Kathrine Anne Porter, the Nelson Algren (three times), as well as awards and fellowships from the Kansas and Illinois Art Councils. Her fiction has appeared in such magazines as Mademoiselle, Ploughshares, American Short Fiction and TriQuarterly. Her debut collection of short stories, Blood and Milk, was released by Sarabande Books in May, 1997. She currently teaches creative writing at Loyola University in Chicago and edits Another Chicago Magazine.
Sharon Solwitz has received literary prizes including the Pushcart, The Dan Curley Award, the Kathrine Anne Porter, the Nelson Algren (three times), as well as awards and fellowships from the Kansas and Illinois Art Councils.
Her fiction has appeared in such magazines as Mademoiselle, Ploughshares, American Short Fiction and TriQuarterly. Her debut collection of short stories, Blood and Milk, was released by Sarabande Books in May, 1997. She currently teaches creative writing at Loyola University in Chicago and edits Another Chicago Magazine.
Denise Sweet, is an Anishinaabe poet(white Earth) and a professor of Humanistic Studies at the University of Wisconsin Green Bay. Songs for Discharming (Greenfield Press) won the First Book award from the Native Writer Circle of the Americas. She is currently the chair of the American Indian Studies program at UW Green Bay. Her poetry has appeared in Reinventing the Enemy?s Language: North American Native Women?s Writing, Sustaining the Forest, The People and The Spirit, Calyx, Sinster Wisdom, Another Chicago Magazine, and others. Funded by the Lannan Foundation.
Performers
Sharon Solwitz and Denise Sweet