Marguerite Sheffer – The Man in the Banana Trees and Sharon Wahl – Everything Flirts
October 19 @ 11:30 am
Marguerite (Maggie) Sheffer is a writer who lives in New Orleans. She is a Professor of Practice at Tulane University, where she teaches courses in design thinking and speculative fiction as tools for social change. Formerly, she taught English at the East Oakland School of the Arts, Castlemont High School, Life Academy, and GW Carver High School.
Her debut short story collection, The Man in the Banana Trees, was selected by judge Jamil Jan Kochai for the Iowa Short Fiction Award, and will be published in Fall 2024.
Sharon Wahl is a writer and documentary film producer. Her collection of love stories inspired by classic philosophy texts, Everything Flirts, won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award and will be published by the University of Iowa Press in the fall of 2024. Her stories, essays, and poems have appeared in the Iowa Review, the Chicago Tribune, Harvard Review, Pleiades, and other periodicals. She is currently writing Bitter Tales, a collection of flash fiction and essays.
