VISITING AUTHOR: Lydia Conklin

Lighthouse Works hosts visiting writer Lydia Conklin at the FI Library on Wednesday, June 21 at 5 PM.

Join us for a reading and conversation with the LW alumni. Conklin will read from their collected short stories Rainbow Rainbow – published in 2022 by Catapult Press.

Rainbow Rainbow is a fearless collection of stories that celebrate the humor, darkness, and depth of emotion of the queer and trans experience that’s not typically represented: liminal or uncertain identities, queer conception, and queer joy. About Rainbow Rainbow Chicago Review of Books reviewer Kasey Peters writes: “The book is a deeply necessary and urgent showcase of sorts: a place for readers to learn and relearn themselves, a place of complexity and confrontation and joy. Like the invented band from which its name was derived, this collection has anthems, ballads, sexy slow jams, and total bangers. Rainbow Rainbow invites readers to realize themselves, however they are now, and however they will be.”

Refreshments will be served and copies of Conklin’s book will be available for purchase.

Please visit Lighthouse Works website for more information.