LTCC Writers’ Series Brings Short Story Writer, Novelist to Campus

The Lake Tahoe Community College Writers’ Series proudly presents an evening with novelist Gayle Brandeis and short story writer Dimitri Keriotis on Thursday, March 5 at 7 p.m. in the Aspen Room, inside the library building. The two writers will read selections from their works, answer audience questions, and sign copies of their books, which will be available for sale. This event is free and open to the public.

Brandeis is the author of Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write (HarperOne), the novels The Book of Dead Birds (HarperCollins), which won Barbara Kingsolver's Bellwether Prize for Fiction of Social Engagement, the sequel The Book of Live Wires, Self Storage (Ballantine), and Delta Girls (Ballantine). Her first young adult novel, My Life with the Lincolns (Henry Holt), won a Silver Nautilus Book Award. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including The Rumpus, Salon and The Nervous Breakdown, and has won several awards, including the QPB/Story Magazine Short Story Award and a Nuclear Age Foundation Peace Poetry Prize. Named a Writer Who Makes a Difference by The Writer Magazine, Brandeis served as Inlandia Literary Laureate from 2012-2014. She teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Antioch University, and is currently Distinguished Visiting Professor/Writer in Residence at Sierra Nevada College.

Keriotis’ debut collection of short stories, The Quiet Time, was released by SFA Press in 2014. His stories have appeared in the Beloit Fiction Journal, Georgetown Review, Evening Street Review, Flyway, BorderSenses, and elsewhere. Raised in Northern California, Keriotis was educated at UC Santa Cruz, UNR, and CSU Chico. He also served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Zaire and Bolivia. Keriotis was an instructor in LTCC’s English Department, and now teaches English at Modesto Junior College and co-coordinates the High Sierra Institute. He and his family live in the Sierra Nevada foothills.

LTCC’s Writers’ Series is committed to providing a cultural outlet for students and the community by hosting free readings, discussions, craft talks and workshops with nationally known, award-winning authors, as well as poetry slams, open mic nights and student readings. Over the past 14 years, LTCC has welcomed nationally-acclaimed poets and writers such as Brian Turner, Denise Duhamel, Luis Rodriguez, H.L. Hix, Sholeh Wolpé, Chris Abani, Dorianne Laux, Francisco Jimenez, Juan Felipe Herrera, Nathalie Handal, Tracy Ross and Lama Marut. For more information, contact LTCC Writers’ Series coordinator Suzanne Roberts at robertss@ltcc.edu.