Reading and Q&A by Ucross Fellow Jessamine Chan

Join us at 12 p.m. on Thursday, October 22nd at the Kooi Library at Sheridan College, for a short reading of “The School for Good Mothers” and a Q&A with Ucross Fellow Jessamine Chan.

Jessamine Chan is the author of The School for Good Mothers, a New York Times bestseller, a Read with Jenna/TODAY Show Book Club pick, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Carnegie Medal, and one of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2022. Translations in twenty languages have been published or are forthcoming. Chan’s short stories have appeared in Tin House and Epoch. Her work has received support from the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, MacDowell, the Wurlitzer Foundation, the Jentel Foundation, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, the Anderson Center, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Ragdale Foundation. She lives in Chicago with her family and is currently working on her second novel.

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Jennifer Anderson
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307.675.0221

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