Author Reading: Shena McAuliffe

Please join us during Short Story Month for a reading from a new collection, We Are a Teeming Wilderness by local prize-winning Novelist and Essayist, Shena McAuliffe. McAuliffe is the author The Good Echo: A Novel (Black Lawrence Press 2018), and a Glass Light Electricity: Essays (University of Alaska, 2020). Her short stories and essays have been published in Conjunctions, Black Warrior Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Copper Nickel, and elsewhere. She earned a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Utah, and an MFA in Fiction Writing at Washington University in St. Louis. She grew up in Wisconsin and Colorado, and now lives in Schenectady, New York—where she is the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Assistant Professor of English at Union College.