Reading next week at Illini Union Bookstore

Lania Knight and I will read from recently published work at 4 p.m. Wednesday, June 27, in the Author’s Corner at the Illini Union Bookstore, 809 S. Wright St., Urbana. Lania will read from her novella, Three Cubic Feet, published in June by Main Street Rag. I will read from my chapbook collection of short fiction, Small Economies, published in January by Mayapple Press. I'm delighted to be on the same stage with Lania. She earned a doctorate from University of Missouri andis an assistant professor at Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, teaching creative writing. Her novella is the coming-of-age story of a young gay man in Springfield, Mo. Her work has recently appeared in New Stories from the Midwest, PANK, Patasola Press East Coast Women's Anthology, Jabberwock Review, and Midwestern Gothic. We're both members of the Red Herring Fiction Writers. The reading is open free to the public. A book signing will follow.