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Craft, The Business of Writing

Public Speaking Details

I teach courses and workshops in creative writing, crime fiction, creative nonfiction, and strategies for writers in writing, revising, publishing, and marketing and promotion. I teach creative writing for the Northwestern University’s MFA in Prose and Poetry and have previously taught at Ball State University, Roosevelt University, Yale Writers’ Workshop, Stockholm Writers’ Workshop, Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Colorado Gold Conference, Antioch Writers’ Workshop, Chicago Writers Workshop, Midwest Writers Workshop, and StoryStudio Chicago. My special interests include psychological suspense thrillers and amateur detective mysteries, historical mysteries, mysteries with strong female protagonists (and also troubled ones!), mysteries that address social ills, Chicago crime fiction, Midwestern crime fiction, writing unreliable narrators, and writing difficult-to-like protagonists. Pet craft topics include Suspense, Point of View, and Characterization. I can also talk about the influence of libraries and writing associations for as long as you let me.

Biography

Lori Rader-Day is the Edgar Award-nominated and Agatha, Anthony, and Mary Higgins Clark award-winning author of Wreck Your Heart, The Death of Us, Death at Greenway, The Lucky One, Under a Dark Sky, and others. Lori lives in Chicago, where she co-chairs the Midwest Mystery Conference and teaches creative writing at Northwestern University. She is a former national president of Sisters in Crime.