National best-selling crime novelist to speak at LSSU

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National best-selling crime novelist to speak at LSSU

SAULT STE. MARIE, MI - Best-selling crime novelist Jeanine Cummins will visit Lake Superior State University on Monday, February 2, for a reading of her work and reception, as well as a master class for writers on the same day.

Everyone is welcome.

The reading and reception will be held from 7-9 p.m. in the Crow’s Nest of the Walker Cisler Center.

Everyone is welcome to enjoy hors d’oeuvres and meet the author. During her master class at 2 p.m., Cummins will talk to all aspiring writers who want to learn more about writing fiction and true crime stories.

Cummins is best known for her true crime novel A Rip in Heaven: A Memoir of Murder and Its Aftermath, published in 2004, which recounts a double rape and murder that happened to her family and made national news.

People magazine called the book “a straightforward, expertly paced narrative that reads like a novel.”

The Kirkus Review noted that the book is a “stringent commentary on our society’s fascination with killers, who in media coverage often overshadow their victims. Cummins’s memoir does a good job of retrieving the lives of Julie and Robin from that obscurity.”

Cummins other novels include The Outside Boy, which was an Indie Next Pick and winner of the Booklist Editor's Choice Award, and The Crooked Branch, which appeared on National Public Radio’s The Story.

Cummins was born in Spain, but has lived in California, Maryland, and New York.

She studied creative writing at Towson University before living in Belfast for several years.

In 1997, she moved to New York City, where she spent 10 years working in the publishing industry before becoming a full-time writer.

Cummins’ fiction is deeply influenced by Ireland, where both of her literary novels are set, and her stories draw on her Irish and Puerto Rican heritage.

She is currently at work on her fifth book.

The reading/reception and master class are part of the LSSU Visiting Writer Series, which is organized and sponsored by the LSSU Department of English.

The series was created to bring highly acclaimed literary authors and poets to the campus to raise awareness of LSSU’s expanding creative writing program and bring together the community and college in a shared literary experience.

Those who attend will have the opportunity to experience Cummins reading her work, answering questions about her writing process, and signing copies of her books, which will be made available for purchase at Barnes and Noble LSSU.

LSSU offers both an undergraduate major and minor concentration in creative writing.

An intimate program with enthusiastic faculty, the creative writing program encourages innovation and experimentation as students develop their voices.

Students complete coursework in prose, poetry, and performance writing, and are given opportunities to get publishing experience before graduation.

Learn more at here.

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