Creative Writing Series: Chris Bachelder & Jennifer Habel

The UT Creative Writing Program is excited to present a reading by writers Chris Bachelder & Jennifer Habel. The reading will take place Monday, February 22 at 7pm in the Lindsay Young Auditorium of John C. Hodges Library on the UT Campus. The event is free and open to the public.

Chris Bachelder and Jennifer Habel are the authors of the novel Dayswork, which was named a best or notable book of 2023 by The Washington Post, The Paris Review, NPR, and Kirkus, among others. Bachelder is the author of four previous novels, including The Throwback Special, a National Book Award finalist and winner of the Terry Southern Prize for Humor. His fiction and essays have appeared in The Paris Review, McSweeney's, The New York Times, and The Sewanee Review, and he is the recipient of the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Habel is the author of the poetry collections Good Reason and The Book of Jane, which won the Iowa Poetry Prize. As both poet and novelist she has received four Individual Excellence Awards from the Ohio Arts Council, and her work has been published in The Sewanee Review, The Believer, Gettysburg Review, and Gulf Coast. Married since 2002, Habel and Bachelder live in Cincinnati, Ohio. Their novel in progress, a companion to Dayswork, is tentatively titled Housework.