12/7: Author Reading Featuring Ann Epstein, Maureen Aitken and Keith Hood

12/7: Afternoon Reading Featuring Ann Epstein, Maureen Aitken and Keith Hood

Come join us for an afternoon of readings at Booksweet! We are thrilled to welcome Ann Arbor authors Ann Epstein, Maureen Aitken and Keith Hood reading from selected works.

Ann S. Epstein (she/her) writes novels, stories, memoir, poems, and essays. Her awards include a Pushcart Prize creative nonfiction nomination, Walter Sullivan fiction prize, Historical Novel Review Editors’ Choice selection, and St. Lawrence Book Award Finalist nomination. Her novels are On the Shore, Tazia and Gemma, A Brain. A Heart. The Nerve., The Great Stork Derby, One Person’s Loss, and The Sister Knot, and Who Cares? (in press). Her other work appears in North American Review, Sewanee Review, PRISM International, Ascent, The Long Story, and elsewhere. She also has a PhD in developmental psychology, MFA in fiber art, and certification as an end-of-life doula. Her website is https://www.asewovenwords.com.

Maureen Aitken's award-winning short story collection was reissued by Wayne State University in September, 2025. It has won The Nilson Prize, The Foreword Review Gold Prize, and received a Kirkus Star. Her stories have been published widely in journals such as Prairie Schooner, New Letters, and The Missouri Review. Most recently, her story was a finalist for The Missouri Review’s Perkoff Prize. She has taught at The University of Michigan, Hamline University, and The University of Minnesota.

Keith Hood is a former janitor and window cleaner. He retired from a job as a field technician for a Michigan electric utility after 32 years avoiding electrocution. His prose and poetry have appeared in Blue Mesa Review, Quick Fiction, Flash Fiction Magazine, 50 Give or Take, Your Impossible Voice, one sentence poems, Five Minutes One Hundred Words, The Forge Literary Journal, and Vestal Review. Keith’s photography has appeared in Ontario Review, Helen: A Literary Journal, The Grief Diaries, Storm Cellar Street Lit, and F-Stop, and in an exhibition at The Toledo Museum of Art.