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Kirstin Valdez Quade talked about and read from her book “The Five Wounds” at the Annual Writers Festival.

Kirstin Valdez Quade talks debut novel ‘The Five Wounds’ at Annual Writers Festival

May 6, 2024

Author and Stanford University English Prof. Kirstin Valdez Quade held a dialogue and read from her debut novel “The Five Wounds” at Northwestern’s 16th Annual Writers Festival Monday. Published...

Northwestern alumna YZ Chin releases ‘Though I Get Home’

April 19, 2018

When YZ Chin (McCormick ’07) was a student at Northwestern, her creative writing professor asked why she frequently wrote about love, but not about sex. She said she hadn’t thought about it, but realized...

Author Leslie Pietrzyk (Weinberg ’83) speaks during the third and final part of the English department’s Return Engagement series. Pietrzyk discussed how losing her late husband, also an NU alumnus, influenced her award-winning book.

Author, NU alum Leslie Pietrzyk explores grief, loss at reading

November 11, 2015

Author Leslie Pietrzyk (Weinberg ’83) discussed how the death of her first husband influenced her award-winning book on grief and loss during a talk Wednesday. Pietrzyk’s book, “This Angel on...

Karen Russell (Weinberg ‘03) was named one of 24 winners of 2013 MacArthur Foundation Fellowships last week. Russell, a fiction writer, is an alumna of Northwestern’s creative writing program.

English profs praise work of former student, MacArthur Fellowship winner

September 30, 2013

Northwestern alumna Karen Russell (Weinberg '03) reached a peak in her writing career earlier this month when she won the prestigious MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, and the professors that taught her...

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