![]() ![]() He lives near Beloit, Wisconsin with his wife Breja and daughter Iris. In the summer he teaches a course called Writing Wilderness in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, one of his favorite places in the world. This is a collection you’ll want to savor, story by thought-provoking story.” Fink received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee and was a founding faculty member of the MFA program at San Jose State University. His environmental journalism background also shines through in stories with a strong sense of place. Undoubtedly, his career as a professor of creative writing and editor of the Beloit Fiction Journal contribute to his smart, thought-provoking writing. This not only reflects Fink’s chops as a short story writer but also his trust in his readers as co-creators of meaning. Read on for more about Fink’s work, the venue, and required covid precautions for this in-person event… Kim Suhr, writing of Fink’s Add This to the List in her book review published in the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters, says, “One of the great joys of this collection (and there are many) is the sense that each reading is more expansive and layered than the last. He is also a regular contributor to Northern Public Radio, where he produces monthly radio essays about the intersection of the self and the natural world. Recent stories of his have appeared in the Mississippi Review, New Orleans Review and Witness. ![]() A journal editor for more than 20 years, Fink founded two national short story prizes, the John Steinbeck Award, and the Hamlin Garland Award. Fink’s previous collection, "Farmer’s Almanac: A Work of Fiction", was published by Emergency Press, He is a professor of English and Environmental Studies at Beloit College and editor-in-chief of the Beloit Fiction Journal. The dark and stunning stories in Add This to the List of Things That You Are explore how we sustain relationships when everything goes sideways and how we find meaning when the old patterns and structures of life give way. A divorcé plays homewrecker across Finland and Russia while his worldly possessions sit in a full self-storage unit. An old mercenary explains the history of edible eel in New Zealand. A cat culler in an Arizona trailer park community mulls his daily routine. Fink’s latest collection, "Add This to the List of Things That You Are" (University of Wisconsin Press), is an exploration of the melancholic dislocations of the male psyche in unfamiliar locations. Love short stories? Midwestern author & editor Chris Fink is coming east! Join us for a reading & book signing in the historic parlor of Savannah’s most famous short story writer, Flannery O’Connor. ![]()
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