Alumni & Faculty Fiction Reading
3:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m., Loganberry Books
13015 Larchmere Blvd., Shaker Heights, OH 44120
Refreshments begin at 3:00, the reading will start at 3:30 p.m.
Thrity Umrigar, Associate Professor of English at CWRU, is the author of Bombay Time (2001), The Space Between Us (2006), If Today Be Sweet (2008), and the memoir First Darling of the Morning (2008). She will read from her new novel, The Weight of Heaven, which debuts this month.
Shelley Costa, a 1983 PhD, teaches creative writing at the Cleveland Institute of Art. Her stories, including the 2004 Edgar Award nominee “Black Heart and Cabin Girl,” have appeared in the Georgia Review, The World’s Finest Crime and Mystery Stories, North American Review, and Crimewave (UK). Shelley will read from Blame, a mystery novel in progress.
Sean Santa, a 2007 BA, is the author of Down and Out and: Prose, Poetry, Stories from Cleveland (2006). Now an MFA candidate at American University, he is working to complete a collection of short stories, Murdering Town, Ohio, and a book of poetry, Skyscrapers and Other Poems. He will read “Quiet and a Sunday,” a story from Murdering Town, Ohio.
Gina Ventre, a 2002 BA, is in her second year in Ohio State University’s MFA program where she is being mentored by former CWRU professor Lee K. Abbott. Along with Sean Santa, she is a founding member of the Cleveland Heights Writing Group. Gina has been published in Storyglossia. She will read an excerpt from her short story “Mansfield.”
Mary Grimm, Associate Professor of English at CWRU, is the author of Left to Themselves (1993) and a short story collection Stealing Time (1994). She will read from her new novel in progress, The Dead Have Dreams.
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