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Writers Respond to Readers
| Writers Respond to Readers is an all-day author event designed for members of book clubs and others interested in literary discussion. Our visiting authors address a variety of topics intended to inform, intrigue, and ignite the imagination. Writers Respond to Readers is an opportunity for those with the spirit of inquiry and a passion for books to gather in pursuit of a more thoughtful approach to reading.
Writers Respond to Readers 2010 Saturday, January 30, 8:45 am to 4:30 pm Tattered Cover Book Store Historic LoDo, 1628th 16th Street Tickets are $50 per person. Reservations will be accepted by PHONE ONLY on Monday, January 4, 2010, beginning at 9:00 am (not before, please). Please call 303-322-1965, ext. 2739 and leave a message with your name and telephone number. We will confirm your reservation by phone and request payment in full by credit card. Space is limited and we can accept no more than two reservations per phone call. This year we are pleased to present four wonderful authors:
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 Barbara Delinsky is the author of more than seventeen bestselling novels with over twenty million copies in print. She has been published in twenty-five languages worldwide. Barbara lives with her family in New England. Barbara Delinsky's author's page.
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 Barb Johnson worked as a carpenter in New Orleans for more than 20 years before entering the MFA program at the University of New Orleans. While in the writing program, she won a grant from the Astraea Foundation, Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers and Washington Square’s short story competition. She completed her MFA in 2008, and in 2009 she became the fifth recipient of A Room Of Her Own Foundation’s $50,000 Gift of Freedom Award, a two-year writing grant. She lives and writes in New Orleans. Barb Johnson's author's page.
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 Maaza Mengiste was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. A recent Pushcart Prize nominee, she was named “New Literary Idol” by New York magazine. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Maaza Mendiste's author's page.
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 Jayne Anne Phillips was born in Buckhannon, West Virginia. She is the author of four novels, Lark and Termite (2008), MotherKind (2000), Shelter (1994) and Machine Dreams (1984), and two collections of widely anthologized stories, Fast Lanes (1987) and Black Tickets (1979). She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and a Bunting Fellowship. She has been awarded the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction (1980) and an Academy Award in Literature (1997) by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her work has been translated into twelve languages, and has appeared in Granta, Harper’s, DoubleTake, and The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction. She is currently Professor of English and Director of the MFA Program at Rutgers-Newark, the State University of New Jersey. Jayne Anne Phillips's author's page.
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