Meet & Greet with Kim Suhr
December 7 @ 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Free
Carefully crafted, surprising, and humane, the stories in Kim Suhr’s “Close Call” unveil emotion in tight spaces, hearts in turmoil, and the searching soul of the Midwest. A series of stories that have been described as capturing “the searching soul of the Midwest”.
Kim will be at Blue House Books on Saturday, December 7th, from noon to 3 p.m. to chat with readers and sign copies of her latest short story collection.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
A door-to-door salesman’s visit shows Carol a new side of her mother and threatens the security they both had taken for granted; a woman finds out what happens when we’re “too busy to die”; a woman in her fifties celebrates her newly augmented body parts; four friends try to breech a chasm in their friendship by planning a reunion; and a researcher examines his relationship to creativity in a world where it has been deemed a mental illness.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Kim Suhr is the award-winning author of “Nothing to Lose” and “Close Call”, both published by Cornerstone Press at the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point. Her work has appeared in many journals including at Midwest Review, Pink Panther Magazine, and Wisconsin People & Ideas, where “Everything Burns” was recognized in their annual fiction contest.
Kim is also Director of Red Oak Writing where she leads critique groups, teaches a prompt-writing class called “Time to Write”! and provides individual manuscript critiques and coaching. She has presented at various conferences including the Wisconsin Writers Association, Examined Life, and Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP). Kim holds an MFA from the Solstice program where she was the Dennis Lehane Fellow in Fiction.
When she is not writing, she enjoys hiking, gardening, and being a fangirl for her grown children in their various pursuits. She lives and writes in Southeastern Wisconsin.
