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Thursday May 10 - Vic's Espresso - 7PM

CHIP LIVINGSTON

is the author of two poetry collections: Crow-Blue, Crow-Black (NYQBooks, 2012) and Museum of False Starts (Gival Press, 2010), and a chapbook, Alarum: (Other Rooms Press, 2007). Individual poems, short stories, and essays have been published numerous journals and anthologies.  Chip has received awards from Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas, Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers, and the AABB Foundation. He received an MA in Fiction from University of Colorado in 1998 and an MFA in Poetry from Brooklyn College in 2005.  Visit his website at www.chiplivingston.com.

 

 

 

JENNY SHANK

is the author of the novel The Ringer (The Permanent Press, 2011), a finalist for the Reading the West Book Awards and a Tattered Cover Book Store Summer Reading 2011 selection.  Her stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in numerous publications.  One of her stories was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and another was listed among the “Notable Essays of the Year” in the Best American Essays.  She has won writing awards from the Center of the American West, the Montana Committee for the Humanities, SouthWest Writers, and others.  Jenny has taught creative writing at the University of Colorado, the Lighthouse Writers Workshop, The Boulder Writers Workshop and the Boulder Writers Studio.  Visit her website at www.jennyshank.com.