Jill Stukenberg snd Carolyn Dekker in conversation

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• Thursday, Jul 13, 2023  5:30pm - 6:30pm

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Join us for a shared reading and conversation with authors Jill Stukenberg and Carolyn Dekker!

Jill Stukenberg was born in Green Bay, grew up in Sturgeon Bay, and is now a Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point and co-editor of Midwest Review. News of the Air, her first novel, won the Big Moose Prize from Black Lawrence Press. Visit her online at jillstukenberg.com.

Carolyn Dekker is the author of North Country: A Pedagogical Almanac (Black Lawrence Press, 2023). She holds a BA in Biology and English from Williams College and a PhD in literature from the University of Michigan. She lives in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and teaches English at Finlandia University. Her creative nonfiction has appeared in Identity Theory, Up North Literary Journal, and Waccamaw. She has published scholarship on Jean Toomer, Leslie Marmon Silko, Willa Cather, and Emily St. John Mandel, and edited Jean Toomer's A Drama of the Southwest for the University of New Mexico Press.

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About News of the Air:

Allie Krane is heavily pregnant when she and her husband flee urban life after a rash of eco-terrorism breaks out in their city. They reinvent themselves as the proprietors of a northwoods fishing resort, where they live in relative peace for nearly two decades. That is, until two strange children arrive by canoe. Like the small ecological disasters lapping yearly at their shore, have the problems of the modern world finally found Allie, her husband, and their troubled cypher of a teenage daughter? This eco-novel of a family, told from three points of view, explores how we remake our lives once we open our hearts to all the news we've chosen to ignore.

"NEWS OF THE AIR is a dreamy, mysterious, novel of the Northwoods. A book about regret and loss, love and friendship ñ all set in and around a familiar Wisconsin lake resort where the visitors and locals comprise a compelling cast of characters. The perfect novel for a hammock or comfortable fireside chair."--Nickolas Butler, Shotgun Lovesongs and Godspeed

About North Country:

North Country: A Pedagogical Almanac is a memoir-in-essays about teaching and family life in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The book follows the cycle of seasons in this remote and beautiful place by the waters of Lake Superior during the years in which the author finds a place there. It's also a look at higher education on the razor's edge at a tiny and struggling liberal arts college. Above all, the memoir is about a life lived alongside books and what they might teach us about how to love, parent, mentor, and care for others.

"Carolyn Dekker has crafted the most original of books, tangling up memoir with literary criticism, nature writing with social critique, regionalist poetics with profound meditations on love, life, and justice. North Country gives new life to the oldest words in the trade--you can't put this book down--for it asks readers to linger and to savor, slow-longing for the next words, the ones that tenderly knot keen observation to brilliant insight."--Phil Deloria, author of Playing Indian and American Studies: A User's Guide