Hearing Voices with Marc McKee and Debra Brenegan

Join us at Orr Street Studios at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 6, for readings of fiction by Debra Brenegan and poetry by Marc McKee.

DEBRA BRENEGAN

Debra Brenegan grew up in the Milwaukee area and graduated with a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She worked as a journalist and taught at Milwaukee Area Technical College before beginning her graduate work. She earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. in English/Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she also taught. She teaches English and Women’s Studies at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. For her fiction, she has received a Ragdale residency and was a recent finalist for the John Gardner Memorial Fiction Prize, The Cincinnati Review’s Schiff Prose Prize, and the Crab Creek Review Fiction Prize. Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Calyx, Tampa Review, Natural Bridge, The Laurel Review, RE:AL, The Southern Women’s Review, The Cimarron Review, Milwaukee Magazine, Phoebe, and other publications. Debra Brenegan’s novel, Shame the Devil, is a historical account of nineteenth-century American writer Fanny Fern (SUNY Press, Excelsior Editions). She is currently working on another novel, set in Missouri, and on a short story collection.

MARC MCKEE

Marc McKee holds an MFA from the University of Houston and a PhD at the University of Missouri at Columbia, where he lives with his wife, Camellia Cosgray. His work has appeared in various journals, such as Boston Review, Cimarron Review, Conduit, Crazyhorse, DIAGRAM, Forklift, Ohio, LIT, and Pleiades. His chapbook, What Apocalypse?, won the New Michigan Press/DIAGRAM 2008 Chapbook Contest, and his full-length collection, Fuse, is out now from Black Lawrence Press.

Orr Street Studios is located at 106 Orr St. in downtown Columbia, Mo. Join us every Tuesday evening during the academic year for literary readings and visual-arts presentations.