Literary Afternoon w/Northwestern University

An afteroon of Student and Author readings with Northwestern University Master of Arts in Creative Writing program.

Laura Adamczyk – Her short stories have twice received prizes in The Civic & Arts Foundation’s Fiction Compeition. Her fiction and poetry has been REJECTED from several well-known literary journals, including the Sycamore Review, Crab Orchard Review, Black Warior Review, Crazyhorse, Cimarron Review, and Glimmer Train. Her hobbies include photography, cooking, and smashing bottles in the alley behind her apartment. Laura is currently working on her final project which she promised will contain no more than three stories about dead parents.

Sonya Arko – will graduate from NWU in June with a concentration in Poetry. In 2007, she was named a finalist for the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. She also designed and taught a poetry workshop for the Norris Center at NWU. Sonya is currently working as a writing tour for NWU’s “The Writing Place”. In Mid-March she will teach an 8 week poetry workshop at Harper College.

Elizabeth Winkowski – joined the creative writing program in fall 2005. She works as an associated editor at McGraw-Hill Education, where she writes and edits an online literarcy program for struggling adolescent readers. She graduated from Boston College with a degree in political science, having spent her junior year at Oxford University. Her wok has appeared in Chicago publications including TimeOut Chicago and NewCity. In addition to writing, Elizabeth also enjoys sewing western shirts, drawing cartoons, and riding her bicycle just about everywhere.

Aleksandar Hemon – is the author of The Question of Bruno, Nowhere Man, and the upcoming The Lazarus Project. Born in Sarajevo, Hemon visited Chicago in 1992, intending to stay for a matter of months. While he was there, Sarajevo came under siege, and he was unable to return home. Hemon wrote his first story in English in 1995. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003 and a “genius grant” from the MacArthur Foundation in 2005. He lives in Chicago with his wife and daughter.