Little Mercies: Celebrating Life in the Shadow of Loss

To mark the release of Year of Plenty: A Family’s Season of Grief, join the author, B. J. Hollars, and the poet/memoirist, Amy Fleury, for a reading and conversation on living through loss and finding beauty and solace in grief. Books will be available for purchase.

About the Presenters

Amy Fleury is a poet and memoirist, whose books include Beautiful Trouble, Sympathetic Magic, and Reliquaries of the Lesser Saints. She has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the Amy Clampitt House, and her work has been published in Image, Prairie Schooner, Crazyhorse, among many other journals and anthologies. She has taught writing at Washburn University, McNeese State University, and now teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. 

B.J. Hollars is the author of several books, most recently Wisconsin for Kennedy: The Primary That Launched A President and Changed The Course of History. He is the recipient of the Truman Capote Prize for Literary Nonfiction, the Anne B. and James B. McMillan Prize, the Council of Wisconsin Writers’ Blei-Derleth Award, and the Society of Midland Authors Award.  His work has been featured in The Washington Post, Creative Nonfiction, Parents Magazine, and elsewhere.  A professor and award-winning columnist, he lives and works in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.