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Date:
June 25, 2024
Time:
7:00 pm

Jane Smiley

Jane Smiley is the author of numerous novels, including A Thousand Acres, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, and the Last Hundred Years TrilogySome LuckEarly Warning, and Golden Age. She is the author as well of several works of nonfiction and books for young adults. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she has also received the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature. She lives in Northern California.

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Host Anne-Marie Oomen

Guest Host Anne-Marie Oomen is the recent recipient of The Library of Michigan’s 2023-2024 Michigan Author Award for her lifetime achievements. She is also the founding editor of Dunes Review, former president of Michigan Writers, Inc., and serves as instructor at Solstice MFA in Creative Writing at Lasell University (MA) and at Interlochen College of Creative Arts. Her newest memoir, As Long as I Know You: The Mom Book, won AWP’s Sue William Silverman Nonfiction Award (University of Georgia Press, 2022).

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