Join Main Street Books and the Center for Literary Arts for a reading by Lori Jakiela.

Jakiela is the author of seven books, most recently They Write Your Name on a Grain of Rice: On Cancer, Love, and Living Even So (Atticus Books). Her memoir, Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe (Atticus Books/Autumn House Press) received the Saroyan Prize for International Literature from Stanford University in 2016, and her latest poetry collection, How Do You Like It Now, Gentlemen? Poems at Mid-Life, won the Wicked Woman Prize from Brickhouse Books in 2022. Her work has been published in The New York Times/Modern Love column, The Washington Post, Pittsburgh Magazine, Pittsburgh Quarterly, The Chicago Tribune, LA Cultural Weekly, Brevity, Lit Hub, and more. She directs the undergraduate writing program at The University of Pittsburgh's Greensburg campus and lives in Trafford, Pa. with her husband (and author) Dave Newman, their two children, one rescue rabbit (Waxahatchee Kardashian), and a very spoiled poodle named Dinkus/***. Her author website is http://lorijakiela.net.

This event is free and open to the public and sponsored by the Allegany Arts Council, the City of Frostburg, and several offices at FSU, including the Office of the President, the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the Department of English and Foreign Languages and Literature.

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