On Thursday, Nov. 3, at 7:30 p.m. at Women & Children First, 5233 N. Clark St., Flannery O’Connor Award winner and LGBT author Anne Raeff (The Jungle Around Us) will have a reading/conversation with her wife, LGBT award-winning author Lori Ostlund, who is releasing the paperback edition of her novel After the Parade.
Author Christine Sneed (The Virginity of Famous Men) will also read and host their conversation.
Raeff and Ostlund are the only married couple who have both won the Flannery O’Connor Award (with Ostlund winning it earlier for her story collection, The Bigness of the World). They’ve been together for almost 25 years.
See WomenAndChildrenFirst.com.