The Efroymson Creative Writing Reading Series is hosted by Columbia College Chicago's English and Creative Writing Department and attracts prestigious, award-winning fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and poets. This year's featured guest speakers are Adrian Matejka, Vievee Francis, Huascar Medina, and Terese Mailhot.
National Book Award–honored author and Kansas native Lucas Bessire (Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains, 2021 Nonfiction Finalist) and Megha Majumdar (A Burning, 2020 Fiction Longlist) examine how access and power operate in their work—from an environmental disaster in the US to a fictionalized nationalist uprising in India. Join the authors for ... Read more
Join us for a keynote address by Kansas author and poet Huascar Medina. He is the 2019-2022 Poet Laureate of Kansas and currently resides in Lawrence. As a Latino living in Kansas, Medina has experienced firsthand the “otherness” spoken of by Esperanza in Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street. His poems capture the sense of place, the ... Read more
The latest book of poetry by Huascar E. Medina, in Spanish and English.
