In December, Amina Gautier, the second African American to have received the prestigious Flannery O'Connor Short Fiction Award in the award's 30-year history, visited several Philadelphia-area high schools, including Overbrook High School and West Philadelphia High.
She read selections from her new book, AT-RISK, and spoke with students. Gautier, who is a University of Pennsylvania alumna and former assistant professor at Saint Joseph’s University, is currently on faculty at DePaul University.
The stories in AT-RISK are set in Brooklyn, where Gautier herself grew up, and focus on the lives of young African Americans who might all be classified as ‘at-risk,’ but who encounter different opportunities and dangers in their particular neighborhoods and schools and who see life through the lens of different family experiences.
Gautier has several upcoming events in Ohio, Illinois, and Richmond.
Thu Feb 2, 2012
7:30pm
Cincinnati, OH: Miami University
Sat Feb 11, 2012
7:00pm
Chicago, IL: The Book Cellar
Tue Feb 14, 2012
6:00-8:00pm
Chicago, IL: DePaul University
Wed Feb 29, 2012
7:00pm
Richmond, VA: University of Richmond
