Coffee with Friends is an opportunity to meet authors and artists and learn about their work. Skyhorse is an award-winning author and the director of the creative writing program at IU. Age 18 and up.
Brando Skyhorse’s debut novel, The Madonnas of Echo Park (Simon & Schuster, 2010), received the 2011 PEN/Hemingway Award, and the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The book was also a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick. Take This Man: A Memoir (Simon & Schuster, 2014) was an Amazon Best Book of the Month selection and named by Kirkus Reviews as one the Best Nonfiction Books of the year. His latest novel, My Name Is Iris, was named one of The Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2023.
Skyhorse has also co-edited an anthology, We Wear The Mask: 15 True Stories Of Passing in America (Beacon Press, 2017). He has been awarded fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in Lake Como, Italy, the Ucross Foundation, Art Omi, the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference, and was the 2014-2015 Jenny McKean Moore Writer-In-Washington at George Washington University.
Skyhorse is an associate professor of English at Indiana University in Bloomington where he directs the creative writing program.
AGE GROUP: | Adult |
EVENT TYPE: | Friends of the Library | Author and Illustrator Events |
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