Join Tusen Takk artist-in-residence Jeremiah Chamberlin and writer Natalie Bakopoulos for an evening of literary conversation hosted in collaboration with the National Writers Series.
Both authors are former Fulbright scholars whose writing is interested in issues of identity, belonging, national borders, and culture. Chamberlin will read from and discuss his hybrid memoir-in-progress which is about the year he spent living in and traveling across Bulgaria in 2017. Bakopoulos will read from and discuss her current novel-in-progress which takes place in the Balkans. Each of these projects is interested in time and distance, memory and personal history, and the complicated ways that individuals and cultures wrestle with the past.
Cash bar available.
Suggested donation: $10
ARTIST BIOS:
Current artist-in-residence at Tusen Takk, Jeremiah Chamberlin teaches in the Department of English at the University of Michigan. He is a Contributing Editor for Poets & Writers Magazine and the Editor-in-Chief of Fiction Writers Review. His work has appeared in Absinthe, Flyway, Glimmer Train, Granta, Michigan Quarterly Review, VQR, Vagabond, and elsewhere. He has taught for the College Year in Athens program and for Semester at Sea. In 2017, he was a Fulbright Research Scholar in Bulgaria.
Natalie Bakopoulos is the author of two novels: Scorpionfish (Tin House, 2020) and The Green Shore (Simon & Schuster, 2012). Her work has appeared in Tin House, VQR, The Iowa Review, The New York Times, Granta, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, MQR, The Mississippi Review, O. Henry Prize Stories, and various other publications. She received her MFA from the University of Michigan, and in 2015 she was a Fulbright scholar in Athens. She’s an associate professor at Wayne State University in Detroit.