Michelle Brafman: Swimming With Ghosts (with Jessie Walker)

The perfect summer event arrives with this celebration of Michelle Brafman's new novel SWIMMING WITH GHOSTS! Author Jessie O'Dea Walker will join Brafman in conversation-- both are swimmers and writers, and we can't wait to hear their conversation about how the two intersect.

SWIMMING WITH GHOSTS is a satirical and chilling, yet deeply-sensitive, tale that captures the ethos and ruin of children's competitive swimming, where parents must face the haunting spirits of their own tumultuous upbringings or risk losing their way and--in turn--themselves.

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Michelle Brafman is the author of Bertrand Court: Stories and the novel Washing the Dead. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in Slate, LitHub, The Forward, Tablet, and elsewhere. She teaches fiction writing in the Johns Hopkins University MA in Writing Program. A former swim mom and NCAA All-American freestyler, Michelle has never lived more than a mile away from a lake, ocean, or river. For more information, please visit www.michellebrafman.com.

Jessie O’Dea Walker is a non-fiction writer and author of The Deep End, a collection of personal essays that study who she was before and after her competitive swimming career. Her work has appeared in Black Fork Review, Invisible Illness, Under Review, and other publications. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts from the University of Baltimore and received her B.A. from the University of Richmond, where she was also an NCAA Division I swimmer. Learn more at jessieodeawalker.com.