First Sunday Prose Reading Series and Open Mic

Come early to sign up for Open Mic! The featured readers are: Claire Arbogast, Nancy Hiller, Winnie
Lyon. Claire Arbogast writes memoir, fiction, and essay. She is the
author of Leave the Dogs at Home, published by Indiana
University Press in 2015 (winner of the 2016 AAUP Public and
Secondary School Library Selection and called an “excellent
choice” by the Library Journal). She is working on a novel, Open
Defiance. www.clairearbogast.com
Nancy Hiller is a furniture maker and writer. She trained as a
furniture maker in England in 1980 and has spent the majority of
her career in that field. After earning a masters degree in
religious studies at Indiana University Bloomington, she began to
write for publication. Her essays and articles have been
published in national periodicals including old house journal,
American bungalow, and fine woodworking. She has authored
several books, most recently Shop Tails, and is one of 16
women and woman-identifying woodworkers profiled in the
newly-released “Joinery, Joists and Gender,” by Deirdre Visser,
a history of women in woodworking that includes select profiles.
"Winnie Lyon wrote her first story on the back of her spelling
homework in fifth grade. Since then, she's been trying to tell

stories that make people smile, and hopes to keep doing it forever.
Born and raised in Cincinnati, she's bridging the gap between
college and the real world, waiting to land somewhere vibrant and
exciting.