Haunted Hemingway: Ghost Stories SOLD OUT

7:00 -9:00 pm

F@H's features a haunted Hemingway Birthplace so join us for an evening of literary ghost stories read by Chicago area writers. Featured authors included:

Deborah Shapiro is the author of the novels Consolation, The Summer Demands, and The Sun in Your Eyes (a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice). Her work has also appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Sight Unseen, Chicago Magazine, Literary Hub, Washington Square Review, and elsewhere. She lives with her family in Chicago. http://www.deborah-shapiro.com/

Jennifer Solheim’s short fiction has earned recognition in contests held by Glimmer Train and Craft, and her fiction and essays have been published in Bellevue Literary Review, Confrontation, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Pinch,and Poets & Writers. One of her stories in BLR was performed at their Page to Stage series at the NYU Langone School. She was longlisted for the Granum Fellowship Prize. She serves as Associate Director of the BookEnds novel revision fellowship at Stony Brook University, co-directed by Susan Merrell and Meg Wolitzer. https://jennifersolheim.com/

Julia Fine is the author of The Upstairs House, winner of the Chicago Review of Books Award for Fiction; What Should Be Wild, which was shortlisted for the Bram Stoker Superior First Novel Award. Her third novel Maddalena and the Dark was published by Flatiron in June 2023. She teaches writing in Chicago, where she lives with her husband and children. https://www.julia-fine.com/

Ananda Lima is a poet, fiction writer, and translator, the author of Mother/land (Black Lawrence Press), winner of the Hudson Prize. Her fiction debut, Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil, is forthcoming from Tor Books. She is also the author of four chapbooks: Vigil, Tropicália, winner of the Newfound Prose Prize, Amblyopia, and Translation. Her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poets.org, Kenyon Review Online, Gulf Coast, The Common, Witness, and elsewhere. She was awarded the inaugural WIP Fellowship by Latinx-in-Publishing, sponsored by Macmillan Publishers, for her fiction, and an early version of CRAFT was named a finalist for the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing. She has an MA in Linguistics from UCLA and an MFA from Rutgers University, Newark. Originally from Brasilia, Brazil, she lives in Chicago. https://www.anandalima.com/