Sunday, September 7th
5pm CT – North Stage

Janice Deal is the author of The Blue Door, a novel plus three previous books of fiction: Strange Attractors: The Ephrem Stories; The Sound of Rabbits, a novel; and The Decline of Pigeons: Stories. She’s the recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Artists Fellowship Award and has won The Moth Short Story Prize and the Cagibi Macaron Prize. Her books have been finalists for the Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year, the Flannery O’Connor Award, the Black Lawrence Press Big Moose Prize, and the Many Voices Project annual competition. She lives with her husband in the Chicago area. http://www.janicedeal.com.