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Lake Forest, Ill – On Thursday, April 4 at 7 p.m. Lake Forest College will host a fiction reading by Cris Mazza, novelist and professor of English at University of Illinois-Chicago. The community is invited to attend the public reading in Meyer Auditorium. Professor Mazza is the author of nine books of fiction. Her most recent novel, Girl Beside Him, was published in 2001. Some of her other notable titles include How to Leave a Country, Dog People, and Is It Sexual Harassment Yet? She is also co-editor of two anthologies of women’s fiction, Chick-Lit: Postfeminist Fiction (1995) and Chick-Lit 2 (No Chick Vics) (1996). Recently her personal essays have been collected into a nonfiction book, titled Indigenous. Mazza was an NEA fellow in 2000-2001. "Mazza is one of the most impressive American novelists of our contemporary age, having written a wide range of novels with depth that just begin to reveal her abilities." –Spectrum Reviews "Talent jumps off her like an overcharge of electricity." – Los Angeles Times Book Review Meyer Auditorium is located in Hotchkiss Hall on the College’s Middle Campus at the intersection of College and Sheridan Roads in Lake Forest. For more information, please call 847-735-6010. Lake Forest College is a private liberal arts institution located 30 miles north of downtown Chicago. The College has 1,250 students representing 44 states and 41 other countries. –30– 02/0319
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