If you’ve been diligently reading the faculty news bits in Ex Libris this quarter, you’ve probably noticed Christine Sneed’s name come up more than once. Which is why when we received yet another exciting piece of news about her award-winning first book, we decided it was high time to turn the Ex Libris spotlight on our very own Prof. Christine Sneed. Ploughshares has just announced Christine Sneed as the winner of the twenty-first annual John C. Zacharis First Book Award for her first book, a collection of short stories entitled Portraits of a Fewof the… Read Article →
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Mark your calendars! DePaul professors and authors will be participating in readings around the city this fall. Don’t miss out on these fabulous opportunities below: TONIGHT: Thursday, September 30 Amina Gautier, a new assistant professor of English, joins author Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife, Her Fearful Symmetry) and other writers for a discussion entitled “Ordinary Women: Extraordinary Heroines–A New Paradigm for the Modern Heroine.” Women & Children First Bookstore 5233 N. Clark St. Chicago … Read Article →
Professor Ted Anton’s essay, “Riff,” will appear in a book that just received a starred review in Publishers Weekly, called One Word: Writers on the Words They Love and Loathe, (Sarabande Books, due November 2010). Professor Amina Gautier won the 2010 Flanner O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. Read more here: http://ugapress.blogspot.com/2010/08/flannery-oconnor-short-fiction-award.html Professor Rebecca Johns Trissler is anticipating the launch of her new novel, The Countess, published by Crown. She also has a forthcoming story, “Perpetua in Glory,” appearing in the winter 2010-11 issue of Ploughshares.
Rebecca Johns’s first novel, Icebergs, was a finalist for the 2007 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for first fiction and a recipient of the Michener-Copernicus Award. Her second, The Countess, is forthcoming in October from Crown Books. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, the Harvard Review, the Mississippi Review, the Chicago Tribune, Cosmopolitan, Mademoiselle, Ladies’ Home Journal, Self, and Seventeen, among others. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the Missouri School of Journalism, she is thrilled to join the English Department at DePaul. Rebecca is teaching ENG 484: Feature Writing during the Winter… Read Article →