American Literary Review ABD Graduate Student Reading

Please join us Friday, November 16th at 7:30pm for the American Literary Review's ABD Graduate Student Reading, featuring fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction from Hillary Stringer, Jessica Hindman, and Elishia Heiden. The reading will take place at the home of April Murphy and Nate Logan. All faculty and students are welcome to attend. Please feel free to bring spouses, significant others, and buddies as well.

Elishia Heiden, a Missouri native whose Gammy dated Rush Limbaugh's grandpa, writes non-fiction and fiction (she is a fourth-year doctoral candidate in fiction)--but usually mingles the two brilliantly. For instance, she might've tried out for American Idol--or maybe she didn't? She might've taken her high school basketball team to state--or not. Or maybe she plans to move to Austria in April after her pending book deal is finalized. Or maybe not. What is true is that she likes to meddle with the "what ifs" and "or maybes" against professional advice, and this obsession leads her to write things.

Jessica Hindman's work has appeared in O., The Oprah Magazine and Invisible Citizens: Youth Politics after 9/11. She is a winner of the Hands Across the Middle East essay contest and Joyous Publishing’s Fiction Contest.  She has worked as a freelance researcher for The New York Times Magazine and MTV, where she was the first person to compile research on the show that would later become the nationwide hit Teen Mom.  She also worked as a reporter for her local paper, The Shenandoah Valley Herald, where she wrote stories with headlines like this: "Local Woman's Lap a Pitstop for Flying Rodent."  Her dissertation is a memoir about her past life as a professional fake violinist.  

Hillary Stringer is a doctoral candidate in English Literature at the University of North Texas, where she is working on a novel. In addition to being a Teaching Fellow, she is the Production Editor of the American Literary Review and a coordinating editor for Pakistaniaat, a Journal of Pakistan Studies.  Her fiction has appeared in Synergies, The Tidal Basin Review, and Microchondria, an anthology of short-shorts complied by the Harvard Book Store. She was nominated for a 2011 AWP Intro Journal Award. She received her Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Cincinnati in the spring of 2009.

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