Event
7 p.m.–9 p.m.
A Reading featuring the 2023 McKnight Fellows in Creative Prose

Presenters
Naomi Cohn
Naomi Cohn is a writer and teaching artist whose work explores reclamation. Her past includes a childhood among Chicago academics; involvement in a guerrilla feminist art collective; and work as an encyclopedia copy editor, community organizer, grant writer, fundraising consultant, and therapist
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Hilal Isler
Hilal Isler is the author of the forthcoming short story collection, Har Mar Superstar . She is a recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Jerome, MacDowell, and Yaddo foundations. She is a winner of a 2023 McKnight Fellowship in Creative Prose; a Periplus Collective
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Gen Del Raye
Gen Del Raye (廣江 弦) was born and raised in Kyoto, Japan. His writing has appeared in The Gettysburg Review and Poetry Northwest, among others, and has been anthologized in Best New Poets and Best Small Fictions. His debut short story collection, Boundless Deep, and Other Stories (University of
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Kao Kalia Yang
Kao Kalia Yang is a Hmong American teacher, speaker, and writer. Her work crosses audiences and genres. She is the award-winning author of the memoirs, The Latehomecomer, The Song Poet, Somewhere in the Unknown World, and Where Rivers Part. Yang co-edited the groundbreaking book, What God is Honored
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Location
The Loft at Open Book
Price
Regular $10.00
Friend $5.00
Genre
Multigenre
2023 McKnight Reading Creative Prose Featuring Naomi Cohn, Hilal Isler, Gen Del Raye, and Kao Kalia Yang

We are so proud of our 2023 McKnight fellows in creative prose! Naomi Cohn's memoir, The Braille Encyclopedia (Rose Metal Press), is forthcoming as is Hilal Isler's short story collection, Har Mar Superstar! Gen Del Raye's debut short story collection, Boundless Deep, and Other Stories (University of Nebraska Press, 2023), won the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, and Kao Kalia Yang published her memoir, Where Rivers Part (Atria Books, 2024).

Join us in celebrating their accomplishments!

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Artists
Naomi Cohn
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Hilal Isler
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Gen Del Raye
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Kao Kalia Yang
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