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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Steve Adams
DESCRIPTION:RSVP\nWednesday\, April 19th\, 2023 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: Steve Adams\, author of the novel Remember This. This session will be moderated by Ramona Reeves\, author of the prize-winning collection It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Book\nJohn Martin\, a talented graphic designer from Texas\, has left his alcoholic mother behind and is now employed as a word processor for a prestigious New York investment bank. In the midst of the personal computer revolution and AIDS epidemic\, John embarks on an affair with his supervisor Alena Marino\, an Italian immigrant. When his oldest sister arrives unexpectedly\, John is forced to confront his past and the complex relationships he has had with beautiful women. John must now come to terms with his damaged past as he embarks on his journey of understanding.\n\n\n\nSteve Adams’ creative nonfiction has won a Pushcart Prize\, been listed as “Notable” in Best American Essays\, and published in The Pinch\, The Millions\, and elsewhere. In fiction\, he’s won Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers\, and his stories have been anthologized and published in Glimmer Train\, The Missouri Review\, and elsewhere. He’s been a guest artist at UT\, a resident artist at Jentel\, and a scholar at the Norman Mailer Writers’ Colony\, and his plays have been produced in NYC. His debut novel\, Remember This\, was published in October 2022. He’s a writing coach and freelance editor in Memphis.\n\nRamona Reeves is a native of Mobile\, Alabama. Her linked short story collection It Falls Gently All Aroundand Other Stories won the 2022 Drue Heinz Literature Prize and was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press last fall. She spent a decade in the Northeastern U.S.\, writing freelance articles\, proofreading for a men’s fashion weekly\, and performing production roles for Food & Wine\, Travel & Leisure\, and Esquire before moving into technical editing and writing. She eventually moved to Texas for several years before leaving to pursue her MFA in fiction. She has since returned and is nearing completion on a novel. Ramona has served as a board member for A Room of Her Own (AROHO)\, moderated and appeared on conference panels\, taught college-level writing courses\, and was an associate fiction editor for Kallisto Gaia Press. Her stories and essays have appeared in The Southampton Review\, Pembroke\, Bayou Magazine\, New South\, Superstition Review\, Texas Highways and other publications. She’s won the Nancy D. Hargrove Editors’ Prize\, been a resident at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts\, and is a Community of Writers alum.
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