Meet Our Readers: Christine Simokaitis

Christine Simokaitis' fiction and creative non-fiction has appeared in Calyx, Natural Bridge, Matchbook, Frigg, and many other print and on-line journals, as well as the anthologies, Are We Feeling Better Yet? Women Speak about Healthcare in America and Mourning Sickness. She earned her MFA from Goddard College in 2001. Her work has been shortlisted for, most recently, the Subito Press 2013 prose manuscript competition, and she was nominated for a 2014 Pushcart Prize. She currently teaches creative writing and composition at Northeastern Illinois University and lives in Chicago with her husband and two sons.

Please join Christine and all our accomplished readers on Tuesday, August 5, 2014, upstairs at Hopleaf at 7:30 pm. This 21-and-older event is free.