Join us for a craft talk with novelist Michelle Herman. Her third novel, DEVOTION, just out this spring, is set in Omaha, where she lived for two years in the 1980s. DOG, a novel originally published in 2005, has been reissued this spring. She is also the author of three collections of personal essays, THE MIDDLE OF EVERYTHING, STORIES WE TELL OURSELVES, and LIKE A SONG; a collection of novellas, A NEW AND GLORIOUS LIFE; and a book for children, A GIRL’S GUIDE TO LIFE. Her first novel, MISSING, won the Harold Ribalow Award for Best Jewish Fiction in 1991. Born and raised in Brooklyn, she has made her home in Columbus, Ohio for many years. She directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Ohio State.