Live at MTM: Leslie Kirk Campbell with Michelle Wildgen

Thursday, March 31st

6:00p

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The Man with Eight Pairs of Legs (Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction):  Campbell, Leslie Kirk: 9781946448880: Amazon.com: Books 

About the Collection

The Man with Eight Pairs of Legs is about the ways our bodies are marked by memory, often literally, and the risky decisions we make when pushed to the extreme. Winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, this collection of short stories is a study in compassion and in passion, a must-read for our times.

 

The Man with Eight Pairs of Legs, Leslie Kirk Campbell — Sarabande 

About the Author

Leslie Kirk Campbell's short fiction has appeared in Ploughshares Solos and won awards at Arts & Letters, Southern Indiana Review, Briar Cliff Review and The Thomas Wolfe Review. The author of Journey into Motherhood (Riverhead), Leslie is the mother of two grown sons and teaches at Ripe Fruit Writing, a creative writing program she founded in San Francisco.

 

MICHELLE WILDGEN 

About the Moderator

Michelle Wildgen is the author of the novels The Angel’s Share (March 2023, Zibby Books), You’re Not You, But Not For Long, and Bread and Butter, and the editor of the food writing anthology Food & Booze. A former executive editor with the award-winning literary journal Tin House, she is a freelance editor and creative writing teacher in Madison, Wis. Since 2013 she and novelist Susanna Daniel have run the Madison Writers’ Studio, offering a variety of creative writing workshops and classes.