Lectures and Performances Test

Workshop: Fiction and the Alchemy of Research

Carmen Giménez Smith is the author of Bring Down the Little Birds (University of Arizona Press, 2010), a memoir, and five poetry collections, including the National Book Critics Circle nominee Milk and Filth (University of Arizona Press, 2013) and the forthcoming Cruel Futures (City Lights Press). She is founding editor and publisher of Noemi Press and was recently named one of the poetry editors for The Nation. Formerly a Teaching-Writing Fellow at the Iowa Writers Workshop, she is now Professor of English at Virginia Tech.

Christine Larusso won the 2017 Madeline P. Plonsker Residency Prize for her poetry manuscript MAR, and will be writer in residence on the Lake Forest College Campus from March 18th through April 8th, 2018. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Narrative Magazine, The Literary Review, The Awl, Apogee, Sycamore Review, Women’s Studies Quarterly, and Pleiades, where she appeared as a featured poet. She holds an MFA from New York University, thanks to a generous Starworks Fellowship, and is currently a Producer for Rachel Zucker’s podcast, Commonplace. She lives in Los Angeles.

Evan Lavender-Smith is the author of the novels From Old Notebooks (Dzanc Books, 2013) and Avatar (Six Gallery Press, 2011). His fiction and nonfiction prose have appeared in Arts & Letters, BOMB, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Glimmer Train, Harvard Review, Hobart, The Offing, The Rumpus, The Southern Review, The White Review and many other magazines and websites. A founding editor of Noemi Press, he is an Assistant Professor of English at Virginia Tech.

Join us for exciting conversation with Hollywood producers Sally Lapiduss ’77 and Chrisann Verges ’78. Beyond tips for building a career as a writer or producer, these alumni will talk about how their Lake Forest education and connections helped them in ways they didn’t imagine as students. Their credits on IMDB include “Girlboss,” “Silicon Valley,” “Gilmore Girls,” “Hannah Montana,” and so much more!