Join us for a reading by Rea Visitor Corinna Vallianatos to celebrate her new short story collection, Origin Stories, out now with Graywolf Press. Corinna will also be in conversation with Carmen Giménez from Graywolf Press, followed by a Q & A. Carmen Giménez is publisher and director of Graywolf Press and the author of several books including Be Recorder, a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award.

Praise for Corinna Vallianatos:

“These dark, devastating stories are love meditations, each offering a secret lesson on how to navigate our new world as woman, daughter, mother, artist. Page-turners each one, full of power, brilliance, and racing energy.”—Deb Olin Unferth

“With the spare, definitive strokes of Matisse’s late portraits, the stories in My Escapee hew precisely to the truth, while rendering a series of expressive and particular female lives. . . . Read together, these stories navigate an intimate landscape of fault lines, of grottoes of emotions, of stark passages and significant crossings. Vivid, whimsical, and restrained, they introduce a mature voice, an affecting and bracing debut.” ---Jhumpa Lahiri

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