A Panel With Devil's Lake at the Wisconsin Book Festival

October 2nd, 12:30 pm
MATC - Downtown

We'd like to draw special attention the following panel being held as part of the Wisconsin Book Festival. The panel-- "Young Writers Discuss Breakout Books With Devil's Lake," features Erinn Batykefer, Susanna Daniel, Nancy Reddy, Rita Mae Reese, and Michelle Wildgen. You can find more information on this panel's event page.

ERINN BATYKEFER is the author of Allegheny, Monongahela (Red Hen Press 2009), which won the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Prize. Her poetry and nonfiction have been featured recently in Prairie Schooner, FIELD, Sou'wester, and The Journal, among others. She's currently at work on a second collection and a memoir.

SUSANNA DANIEL was born and raised in Miami, Florida, where she spent much of her childhood at her family’s stilt house in Biscayne Bay. Her novel, STILTSVILLE, was called an "exquisite debut" by Publishers Weekly, "lushly descriptive and complex" by Booklist, and "a perfect balance of wit, weakness and tenderness" by BookPage. She is a graduate of Columbia University and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and was a Carl Djerassi Fiction Fellow at the University of Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. Susanna lives with her husband and son in Madison, Wisconsin, where during the long winter she dreams of the sun and the sea, and of jumping off the stilt house porch at high tide. She is at work on a second novel.

NANCY REDDY is an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her publications include Prairie Schooner and the New Orleans Review. She is the review and interview editor of Devil's Lake.

RITA MAE REESE has received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, a Stegner fellowship, and a “Discovery”/The Nation award. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in more than a dozen journals and anthologies including The Normal School, Imaginative Writing, From Where You Dream, Blackbird, New England Review, The Southern Review, and The Nation. Her first book, The Alphabet Conspiracy, will be published by Arktoi/Red Hen Press in February 2011.

MICHELLE WILDGEN is the author of the novels But Not For Long and You're Not You and editor of the anthology Food & Booze: A Tin House Literary Feast. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, O Magazine, Best Food Writing, Best New American Voices, and other journals and anthologies. She lives in Madison and is an executive editor at Tin House Magazine.