One of our 2017 featured readers, Christine Maul Rice will be reading alongside Kelsey Ronan at 6 PM, Friday July 21st at the Flint Public Library.
Christine’s debut novel Swarm Theory was recently named a finalist in the Chicago Writers Association Best Books of 2016, won an Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY), won a National Indie Excellence Award, was included in Powell’s Books Midyear Roundup, the Best Books of 2016 So Far, and was called “a gripping work of Midwest Gothic” by Michigan Public Radio’s Desiree Cooper. Her short stories have been published in The Literary Review, American University of Beirut’s Rusted Radishes, F Magazine, and online in Roanoke Review, Chicago Literati, and Bird’s Thumb, among others. Her essays and long-form journalism have appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The Rumpus, The Big Smoke, The Millions, the Chicago Tribune, Detroit’s Metro Times, The Good Men Project, The Urbaness.com, CellStories.net, and her radio essays have been produced by WBEZ Chicago. Christine teaches at Columbia College Chicago and is the managing editor of Hypertext Magazine and director of Hypertext Studio Writing Center.
For more information on Christine’s recent writing and other endeavors, we invite you to visit her website: http://christinemaulrice.com/.
Stay tuned for an exciting announcement to be made tomorrow about Christine’s involvement in the 2017 Flint Literary Festival!