A Reading with Maria Hummel & Ryan McIlvain

Maria Hummel is the author of the poetry collection House and Fire, winner of the 2013 APR/Honickman First Book Prize, and two novels: Motherland (Counterpoint, 2014) and Wilderness Run (St. Martin’s, 2003). Her poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared in Poetry, New England Review, Narrative,The Sun, The New York Times, and the centenary anthology The Open Door: 100 Poems, 100 Years of Poetry Magazine.

Ryan McIlvain has published fiction and nonfiction in many journals, including The Paris Review. His first novel, Elders (Hogarth/Random House), was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Award. A graduate of the Rutgers MFA Program and a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford, he currently lives with his wife in Los Angeles.