AUTHOR READING: Toya Wolfe

Join us for a special event featuring award-winning novelist Toya Wolfe. Toya will share new work and take questions from the audience. A light reception will follow.

Toya Wolfe grew up in the Robert Taylor Homes on Chicago’s South Side. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago. Her writing has appeared in African Voices, Chicago Journal, Chicago Reader, Hairtrigger 27, and Warpland: a journal of Black Ideas. She is the recipient of the Zora Neale Hurston-Bessie Head Fiction Award, the Union League Civic & Arts Foundation Short Story Competition, and the Betty Shifflett/John Schultz Short Story Award. Her debut novel, Last Summer on State Street, received wide acclaim and received several national and international awards.