Midland Authors presents:
An Evening with Author and Journalist Cheryl L. Reed
Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024, 6:30–8 p.m.
Volumes Bookcafe, 1373 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago
Cheryl L. Reed has shadowed dark and mysterious characters from cops to murder suspects, cloistered nuns to girls doing drugs. Her new novel, Map of My Escape, is a thriller about an anti-gun activist who accidentally shoots a Chicago cop and flees to an island in northern Michigan.
Reed’s debut novel, Poison Girls, won the Chicago Writers’ Association Book of the Year Award. Her book of nonfiction, Unveiled: The Hidden Lives of Nuns, chronicles her bizarre journey of living with religious women in convents off and on for four years. Her website is cherylreed.com.
A former editor and reporter at the Chicago Sun-Times and other publications, Reed was a US Fulbright Scholar for the State Department in Ukraine and in Central Asia. She splits her time between Virginia and Washington, D.C.
Mary Wisniewski, Newcity critic and SMA board member, will interview Reed.