Reading with Jeannine Ouellette and Tim Moder

Duluthians Jeannine Ouellette and Tim Moder will read from their works.

Ouellette spent her childhood in Duluth and is the author of the memoir The Part that Burns, the children’s book Mama Moon and several educational titles. She is the recipient of a Margarita Donnelly Prize, Curt Johnson Fiction Award, Proximity Essay Award, Masters Review Emerging Writer’s Award, two recent Pushcart nominations, as well as awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Medill School of Journalism. Her work has been praised by Joyce Carol Oates as “simply beautiful, precisely imagined, poetically structured, compelling, and vivid.”

Moder is an Indigenous poet living in northern Wisconsin. He is a member of Lake Superior Writers. His poetry has appeared in a variety of literary magazines and journals, including Parentheses Literary Magazine, Pittsburgh Poetry Journal, the South Florida Poetry Journal and Sisyphus Magazine.