LIVE READING AND Q&A WITH E.A. NEEVES AND PATRICIA PARK: Join WCSU’s M.F.A. in Creative and Professional Writing for a live reading and Q&A with authors E.A. Neeves and Patricia Park! This event is free, open to the public and will take place from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in Room 218 of the Westside Classroom Building.

E.A. Neeves grew up in New England, where she spent many summers lifeguarding at an idyllic lake, and occasionally catching snapping turtles. She enjoys tea, swimming and board games that take entire evenings to play. When she’s not writing, she can usually be found spending time with her family at their (probably not haunted) home in Salem, Massachusetts. “After You Vanished” is her YA debut.

Patricia Park is a tenured professor of Creative Writing at American University, a Fulbright Scholar in Creative Arts, an Edith Wharton Writer-in-Residence, and a Jerome Hill Artist Fellow. She is the author of the YA novel, “Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim” and the adult novel, “Re Jane,” a retelling of Jane Eyre named New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, winner of an American Library Association Award, an NPR Fresh Air pick, and others. She’s written for the New York Times, New Yorker, Guardian, and others. Her new YA novel, “What’s Eating Jackie Oh?” is forthcoming in April 2024. For more information, visit www.facebook.com/events/3656415664680268.