Billy Lombardo

Upper School creative writing teacher and director of the Service Learning Program, Billy Lombardo, will read from his award-winning book, The Logic of a Rose: Chicago Stories at the Steppenwolf Theatre on Thursday, December 15, at 7:30 p.m.

This literary star-studded event in the Downstairs Theatre also features acclaimed Chicago authors Stuart Dybek and Alex Kotlowitz.

Dybek won the 1995 PEN/Bernard Malamud Prize "for distinctive achievement in the short story," and several other awards for his short stories and poetry. Kotlowitz, a journalist, is perhaps best known for his nonfiction book There Are No Children Here, which was named one of the most important 150 books of the century by the New York Public Library. Lombardo’s book was the winner of the G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction in 2004.

Lombardo has recently appeared on public radio and public television stations to read and talk about his essays and short stories. His Logic of a Rose was just named to The Chicago Tribune’s Best of 2005 Fiction list.

This “Chicago Stories” event is part of Steppenwolf’s three-week Traffic Jam festival, which brings artists to Chicago “to provide an intimate and unique intersection of music, language and performance.”

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