Columbus: Ronna Wineberg on "9 Facts That Can Change Your Life"

Event date: 
08/30/2016 - 7:00pm

Join us on Tuesday, August 30th at 7pm for a reading by Ronna Wineberg from her new book of stories, Nine Facts That Can Change Your Life. Joining her in conversation will be author Donna Baier Stein.

In this stirring new collection, Ronna Wineberg explores our essential bonds to partners, children, parents, and friends. Intimacy, marriage, parenthood, adultery, divorce, and the legacies left by the past unfold in these beautifully written stories. Men and women search for happiness and love, yet face longing, disappointment, and loss. The characters in Nine FactsThat Can Change Your Life struggle with unexpected changes in their own lives but discover the power of kindness, the joy of connection, and the ways in which we can be renewed.

Ronna Wineberg’s second collection of short stories, Nine Facts That Can Change Your Life, was published by Serving House Books in May 2016. She is also the author of On Bittersweet Place, her first novel (Relegation Books, 2014), and a debut collection, Second Language (New Rivers Press, 2005), which won the New Rivers Press Many Voices Project Literary Competition, and was the runner-up for the 2006 Reform Judaism Prize for Jewish Fiction. Her stories have appeared in American Way, Colorado Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, South Dakota Review and elsewhere, and been broadcast on National Public Radio. Ronna is the recipient of a scholarship in fiction from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and residencies to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Ragdale Foundation. She has been awarded a fellowship in fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is the founding fiction editor of the Bellevue Literary Review. More information can be found at www.ronnawineberg.com

Donna Baier Stein is the author of Sympathetic People (Iowa Fiction Award Finalist and 2015 IndieBook Awards Finalist) and Sometimes You Sense the Difference (Finishing Line Press).  Her novel The Silver Baron’s Wife (PEN/New England Discovery Award winner) will be published in 2016 by Serving House Books. Her work has appeared in Ascent, Beloit Poetry Journal, Poet Lore, Prairie Schooner, Virginia Quarterly Review, Puerto del Sol, and elsewhere. She was a founding Poetry Editor at Bellevue Literary Review and now publishes Tiferet Journal. Other awards include a scholarship from Bread Loaf, fellowships from Johns Hopkins University and the New Jersey Council for the Arts, prizes from the Poetry Societies of Virginia and New Hampshire, an Honorable Mention and Third Prize from the Allen E. Ginsberg Poetry Prizes, a Summer Literary Seminars Scholarship, three Pushcart nominations and prizes from Kansas Quarterly, Florida Review, and elsewhere. www.donnabaierstein.com

Event address: 
450 Columbus Ave
New York, NY 10024
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$14.95
ISBN: 9780997101003
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Published: Serving House Books - May 5th, 2016