Alexander Weinstein, winner of Drake English Department’s 2017 Emerging Author Award, will read from his work and engage in a question and answer session on April 12 at 7 p.m. in Medbury Lounge. Weinstein is the author of Children of the New World, a collection of speculative, wryly dystopian stories that imagine futures near and distant in which technology, globalism, and individualism have transformed characters’ lives and relationships to one another and to their environment.

The event is free and open to the public. Attendees will have the opportunity to encounter writing on the leading edge of American fiction and ask questions and engage with Weinstein on the imagined realities his writing presents.

— Craig Owens, Department of English