In Conversation: Anne-Marie Oomen & Patricia Ann McNair

Join us for the virtual book launch of Anne-Marie Oomen’s new book, As Long as I Know You: The Mom Book. Published by University of Georgia Press, this book was selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil for the Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction. Anne-Marie will be in conversation with Patricia Ann McNair.

This event will be a celebration of Anne-Marie’s newest memoir, but it will also be a conversation between working creatives who have written their way through life and all its iterations. We are certain you don’t want to miss it!

Anne-Marie Oomen

Anne-Marie Oomen’s forthcoming books are AWP’s winner of the Sue William Silverman nonfiction prize for As Long as I Know You (University of Georgia Press), and The Long Road (Cornerstone Press). She edited ELEMENTAL: A Collection of Michigan Nonfiction, is author of The Lake Michigan Mermaid, (co-authored with Linda Nemec Foster), Pulling Down the Barn, House of Fields (all  Michigan Notable Books),  American Map: Essays,  Uncoded Woman (poetry), and Love, Sex and 4-H (Next Generation Indie Award for Memoir). She has written seven plays, including the award-winning Secrets of Luuce Talk Tavern.  She is a poetry and nonfiction instructor at Solstice MFA at Lasell University (MA) and Interlochen College of Creative Arts. Visit her at www.anne-marieoomen.com

Patricia Ann McNair (she/her/hers)

Patricia Ann McNair’s short story collection, Responsible Adults, was named a Distinguished Favorite by the Independent Press Awards; The Temple of Air (stories) was named Chicago Writers Association’s Book of the Year; her collection of essays, And These Are the Good Times, was a Montaigne Medal Finalist for Most Thought-Provoking Book of the Year. McNair is an Associate Professor Emerita of Columbia College Chicago. She lives in Tucson, Arizona.