Visiting Writers Festival
Hosted by the Concordia College English Department
Master Classes
Fiction - Grose 332
Joint Reading
Frida Nilsen Lounge
Student-moderated panel discussion
Frida Nilsen Lounge
Please welcome this year's writers:
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Sheila O’Connor (fiction) v Author of Where No Gods Came, winner of the Minnesota Book Award as well as the Michigan Award for Literary Fiction v Tokens of Grace was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award and nominated for a Pushcart Prize v Has received the Outstanding Teaching and Service Award at Hamline University where she is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate Liberal Studies Program. |
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Evelina Chao (nonfiction) v Author of Yeh Yeh’s House, finalist for the Minnesota Book of the Year in the memoir category. v Her first book, the novel Gates of Grace, part character study and part mystery, earned critical acclaim nationwide. v Currently Assistant Principal Viola the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra |
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Mark Vinz (poetry) v Has received the Lake Region Arts Council Individual Artist Award as well as the Red River Heritage Society Award for Achievement in the Arts and Humanities. v Retired Professor of English and co-director of the Tom McGrath Visiting Writers Series at Minnesota State University Moorhead. |