The Department of English and the Undergraduate Certificate in Writing Program are pleased to host Eula Biss & David Trinidad for a reading and Q&A session this Tuesday, November 8th @ Prairie Lights, 15 S Dubuque St.
Eula Biss Q&A: 5:30 - 6:30 PM
Eula Biss and Trinidad Reading: 7:00 – 8:00 PM

Eula Biss holds an MFA in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa. Her second book, Notes from No Man's Land, received the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. Her work has also been recognized by a Pushcart Prize, a Jaffe Writers' Award, and a 21st Century Award from the Chicago Public Library. Her essays have recently appeared in The Best American Nonrequired Reading, The Believer, Gulf Coast, Columbia, Ninth Letter, and Harper's.  She teaches writing at Northwestern University.
                                                                              
David Trinidad is the author of more than a dozen books, including The Late Show (2007), Phoebe 2002: An Essay in Verse (2003), and Plasticville (2000), a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. He has received awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and his work has appeared in numerous periodicals and several anthologies, including Best American Poetry, The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, and Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology.  Trinidad currently teaches at Columbia College Chicago, where he co-founded the literary journal Court Green.

For More Information
Contact Daniel Khalastchi
319-384-1328
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daniel-khalastchi@uiowa.edu