Meet the Readers: Miles Harvey

Miles Harvey’s collection of short stories, The Registry of Forgotten Objects (Mad Creek Books, 2024) won the Journal Non/Fiction Prize and the Society of Midland Authors award for best work of adult fiction. His nonfiction includes The King of Confidence (Little, Brown & Co., 2020) and The Island of Lost Maps (Random House, 2000), a national bestseller. He teaches creative writing at DePaul University in Chicago, where he chairs the Department of English, and is of a founding editor of Big Shoulders Books, a nonprofit, social-justice publisher.

Please join Miles and our other fantastic readers on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025 in the upstairs bar at Hopleaf. Doors open at 7pm, and the show starts at 7:30. It's free, and 21-and-over. Please RSVP on Facebook.