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LaTanya McQueen in conversation with Rachel Yoder

August 5, 2021 - 7:00pm

Prairie Lights Virtual - Zoom

Please join us for a reading and conversation with LaTanya McQueen  to celebrate the release of When the Reckoning Comes. She will be joined in conversation by Rachel Yoder.

To join this virtual event, register here.

Laura van den Burg,  author of The Third Hotel says of the book, “LaTanya McQueen writes brilliantly and incisively about the haunted histories that lurk behind landscapes and road signs; the tidal pull of childhood friendships; what it means to leave home and what it means to return. When the Reckoning Comes is an extraordinary, beautifully-crafted debut.”

LaTanya McQueen has an MFA from Emerson College, a PhD from the University of Missouri, and was the 2017-2018 Robert P. Dana Emerging Writer Fellow at Cornell College. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Coe College. She published an essay collection, titled, And It Begins Like This and has been featured in Best American Essays, Carve Magazine, and Bennington Review. When the Reckoning Comes is her first novel.

Rachel Yoder is a graduate of the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program and also holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Arizona. A resident of Iowa City for 12 years, it's been her great pleasure to be a part of the literary community in her work with the Mission Creek Festival, Iowa Youth Writing Project, Iowa Summer Writing Festival, Iowa Young Writers' Studio, and UNESCO City of Literature. She is a founding editor of draft: the journal of process.