The Inprint Studio Series 2006-2007

Tomorrow's Great Writers Today

presented in association with DiverseWorks, The Honors College and the Creative Writing Program (CWP) at the University of Houston

This year, Inprint launches a new studio series featuring some of the most exciting emerging voices in the literary arts. In addition to bringing in writers from around the country, the Studio Series also showcases former CWP students and alumni who got their start here in Houston. All readings are free and open to the public.

Coming up . . . . .

Laura Kasischke

Thursday, April 5, 2007, 7:30 pm

DiverseWorks, 1117 East Freeway, Houston 77002 (just north of downtown)

Laura Kasischke, described by Publishers Weekly as "a bold chronicler of dark obsession," is the author of four novels, including her most recent, Be Mine. O Magazine called her third novel, The Life Before Her Eyes, "hauntingly original. . . . a tour de force." Novelist Mary Gaitskill writes about Kasischke, "Like a modernist Shirley Jackson, Laura Kasischke artfully evokes the terror and mystery at the core of ordinary life—unlike Jackson, she is doubly artful at evoking its beauty." The Boston Globe called her first book, Suspicious River, "an amazing first novel."

Kasischke is also the author of six volumes of poetry and a young adult novel, Boy Heaven. She has twice received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and her writing has been published in The New Republic, Harper's, Poetry, and The American Poetry Review. She is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan, where she teaches creative writing in the MFA program. She lives in Chelsea, Michigan, with her husband and son.