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Join us on the first Monday of every month at 7PM at the UConn B&N Bookstore at Storrs Center. 
Hang out, listen to some riveting stories, and meet us for a drink at Geno's afterwards. 
September 11, 2017
David Michaels
was born in New York City to immigrant parents. He spent two years with the Peace Corps in Thailand; taught linguists at UConn for over thirty years; and also taught university seminars in Pisa, Bilbao, Vienna, Salzburg, and Munich. "Kalganov in Love," the short story from which he will be reading tonight, is his first venture into fiction writing. 
Meghan Evans
is a creative writing teacher at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts and Professor of Ancient Literature at Central Connecticut State University. She received her BA from Trinity College and her MFA in Fiction Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. 
Jacqueline Sheehan
is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels The Comet's Tale, Lost & Found, Now & Then, Picture This, The Center of the World, and The Tiger in the House. She writes NPR commentaries and essays for the New York Times column Modern Love. Jacqueline was awarded residencies at Hawthornden Castle in Scotland, the Jentel Arts Colony in Wyoming, and at Turkey Land Cove on Martha's Vineyard. She teaches workshops at Grub Street, Writers in Progress, and with writer Patricia Lee Lewis in Guatemala and Scotland. 

October 2, 2017

Ronald Mallett's
breakthrough research on time travel has been featured in media around the world, and he appeared in the award-winning documentary How to Build a Time Machine. In 1975, he joined the physics faculty at the University of Connecticut, where he is currently Research Professor of Physics. Time Traveler: A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality, his acclaimed memoir, has been translated into Korean, Chinese, and Japanese. 
Melissa Wyse 
is a fiction writer living in Pomfret, CT. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including Shenandoah, Urbanite, and decomP. Melissa is currently completing a collection of linked short fiction set in World War II Hawaii titled Moon Over Sand Island. In addition to her work as a writer, Melissa  teaches writing at Pomfret School, manages the Silver Circle Art Center in Pomfret, and is the founder and director of Idlewild Arts, which hosts the annual Idlewild Writers Retreat here in Connecticut each autumn.
Matthew P. Winkler
visits schools to give presentations and to lead workshops related to his TED-Ed video "What Makes a Hero?" and his nonfiction book Mentoring Teenage Heroes: The Hero's Journey of Adolescence. Matt will read another installment from his YA adventure series Across the Line, plus a scene from his memoir about the year he spent homeschooling his son through the sixth grade and their quest to skateboard in all fifty states. Learn more at MatthewPWinkler.com. 

November 6, 2017

Ellen Meeropol
​is the author of three novels: Kinship of Clover, ​On Hurricane Island, and House Arrest​. A former nurse practitioner and bookseller, Ellen's recent essay publications include The Writer​, Guernica, The Cleaver, Necessary Fiction​, and Writer's Chronicle. She is co-founder and board president of Straw Dog Writers Guild. 
​Edmond Chibeau 
​is a performance writer. His work has been published in The Nation, Multicultural Review, New England Theatre Journal, The World, EAR Magazine, California Quarterly, and ​Santa Barbara News and Review. His work has been performed at the Lincoln Center's Bruno Walter Hall, the Knitting Factory, The Ear Inn,  and Hygienic Art. He has worked with John Cage, Alison Knowles, and Charles Bernstein, among others. He teaches scriptwriting at Eastern Connecticut State University.  
Sarah Gilligan 
is currently completing The Genius of Connecticut, her collection of short stories. She has previously written a series of essays about her tangle with breast cancer, and she has been running her writing and graphic design firm Cerebration for more than twenty-five years. She recently earned an honorable mention in the 2017 Short Story America Prize. Sarah lives in Windsor with her husband and two daughters. 

December 4, 2017 

Aaron Tillman
is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Honors Program at Newbury College. His short story collection Every Single Bone in My Brain was published in July 2017. He received a Short Story Award for New Writers from Glimmer Train Stories​, and his fiction has appeared in several journals, including Glimmer Train and Mississippi Review. More details are available on his website: aarontillmanfiction.com. 
Christine Kalafus's 
essays have appeared in The Woven Tale Press, The Writer in the World, and PAGE Arts Journal. "I Hear You Make Cakes," performed at Laugh Boston, was selected by The Moth for its podcast. Blueprint for Daylight is Christine's memoir-in-progress. It's a story of survival: from her husband's affair, a cancer diagnosis, twins, and the water in her basement - all determined to swallow her whole. ​​
Joan Seliger Sidney
is the author of Bereft and Blessed, Body of Diminishing Motion: Poems and a Memoir and The Way the Past Comes Back. She has received individual artist poetry fellowships from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation, and the Vermont Studio Center. She is the recipient of a Visiting Faculty Fellowship from Yale.  She’s Writer-in-Residence at the University of Connecticut’s Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life.  In addition, she facilitates "Writing for Your Life," an adult writing workshop.
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