Feb 12

An Evening with Raymond Luczak

Tuesday, February 12, 2019

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Reception:     5:00 – 5:30 pm

Readings:       5:30 – 7:00 pm

Join us for an evening with Raymond Luczak as he shares excerpts from his notable books and provides perspective on the intersection of identities and writing.

 

Raymond Luczak is a writer, editor, and playwright originally from Ironwood, a small mining town in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and currently lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Luczak received a B.A. in English from Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. His Deaf gay novel, Men with Their Hands won first place in the Project: QueerLit Contest 2006 and Jerry Wheeler of the Out in Print blog has listed Luczak’s book The Kinda Fella I Am: Stories as one of the best books of 2018.

Readings will include excerpts from three of his books: The Kinda Fella I Am: Stories, The Last Deaf Club in America, and A Babble of Objects, Poems

ASL Interpreters and Real-Time Captioning will be provided. For additional accessibility requests please send us an email to: dcc@uic.edu.

This is event is co-sponsored by the UIC Disability Cultural Center, the UIC Gender and Sexuality Center and Bodies of Work

 

Contact

Carrie Sandahl
312-996-1967