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Meet Our Readers: Karen Skalitzky

  • Sara Ross Witt

Sara Ross Witt

21 Jan 2011
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Karen Skalitzky is the author of A Recipe for Hope: Stories of Transformation by People Struggling with Homelessness (ACTA Publications, 2006).

An educator by trade, she works as a Reading Specialist and coaches teachers and principals in both underserved and high achieving public schools.

Join Tuesday Funk at Hopleaf's upstairs bar to hear Karen and all of our amazingly talented readers on February 1, 2011!

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Meet the Readers: Joanne Jacobson

Joanne Jacobson has published three collections of nonfiction: Hunger Artist, a memoir on growing up in post-World War II suburbia; Every Last Breath, a set of linked autobiographical essays on chronic illness; and, this past year, In the Photic Zone, a prose chapbook probing emotional lives below the visible
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Beatriz Gartler

Meet the Readers: Beatriz Gartler

Beatriz Gartler was born and reared in Buenos Aires and has lived in Chicago since 1970. She is a retired professor of literature and creative writing. Her publications include two collections of poetry, one novel, and numerous essays and articles.  Join Beatriz and our other amazing readers on Tuesday, July
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Jill Howe

Meet the Readers: Jill Howe

Jill Howe is the producer of Story Sessions, a live storytelling series with real-time illustrations, since 2013. She has performed widely across Chicagoland, served as a resident storyteller at the Field Museum, led storytelling workshops for Newberry Library, and presented a Naperville Tedx Talk on vulnerability. Find more of
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