Curtis Sittenfeld will be in conversation with Jane Delury about her life and work. The event is presented in partnership with the the Baltimore Festival of Jewish Literature.

Curtis Sittenfeld is the bestselling author of six novels: Prep, The Man of My Dreams, American Wife, Sisterland, Eligible, and Rodham. Her first story collection, You Think It, I’ll Say It, was published in 2018 and picked for Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club. Her books have been selected by The New York Times, Time, Entertainment Weekly, and People for their “Ten Best Books of the Year” lists, optioned for television and film, and translated into thirty languages. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and Esquire, and in the Best American Short Stories anthology, of which she is the 2020 guest editor. Her non-fiction has appeared in The New York Times, Time, Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, Slate, and on “This American Life.” She is a graduate of Stanford University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Jane Delury is the author of The Balcony, a novel-in-stories, which won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. An associate professor at the University of Baltimore, she teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts and directs the BA in English.

ASL interpretation will be available to attendees.

Visit https://www.theivybookshop.com/ to order copies of Curtis Sittenfeld’s books.

Writers LIVE programs are supported in part by a bequest from The Miss Howard Hubbard Adult Programming Fund.