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The Meijer Visiting Writers Series: A Reading by Jen Fawkes

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Jen Fawkes is the author of Daughters of Chaos, a literary alternate history in which a female Union spy discovers a secret society of magical women that spans millennia.

Pulitzer Prize finalist Kelly Link called Daughters of Chaos "ferociously, radiantly compelling," and according to Publishers Weekly's starred review, the novel is a "dazzling historical fantasy . . . both the historical and fantastical elements come alive in Sylvie’s suspenseful narration, which is interwoven with the text of the imaginary play. Fawkes wows with this wildly original tale.”

Jen's first book, Mannequin and Wife, was a 2020 Shirley Jackson Award Nominee, the winner of the 2023 Phillip H. McMath Post-Publication Book Award, and a Foreword INDIES gold medalist. Her collection Tales the Devil Told Me was a Foreword INDIES silver medalist, one of Largehearted Boy’s Favorite Collections of 2021, and a finalist for the 2022 World Fantasy Award for Single-Author Story Collection. Jen lives in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Sponsored by the Meijer Visiting Writers Series.

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Location: Bovee U.C. Rotunda
103 E. Preston
Mount Pleasant, MI
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Admission: Open to the public
Sponsor: Department of English Language and Literature College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Contact: Darrin Doyle doyle1d@cmich.edu 989-774-1349