Milkweed Books
1011 S Washington Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55415
United States
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Join The Loft & Milkweed Books as we present a reading with Katherine Packert Burke and musician Creekbed Carter Hogan. Katherine will teach a craft seminar on Structure, Narrative, and the Novel with The Loft at 10 A.M. which is followed by a public reading and conversation at Milkweed Books beginning at 2 P.M.
ABOUT THE BOOK
From the author of the “vibrantly, brilliantly alive” (James Frankie Thomas) Still Life, a haunted family reenacts the violent night their lives changed forever.
Exactly 19 years ago, in May of 1992, 17-year-old Roland St. Cloud fatally stabbed his twin sister Edna’s three best friends. The slaying became instant tabloid fodder leading to a bestselling true-crime book and horror movie franchise. Each year on the anniversary of her family’s undoing, Edna reenacts the murders. She is joined by her husband, Roger, the night’s definitive chronicler; her younger sister Calla, a failed playwright who spends her days lost in online gaming; her younger brother James and his girlfriend Heather; and her teenage daughter Wren. Together, the St. Cloud family seals the windows and doors of the house and lights a grim candle. After their macabre theatrics there’s nothing to do but wait for dawn, talk among themselves, and remember.
All Us Saints is a literary family drama packaged as a two-act play. Behind the curtain, Packert Burke unveils Roland’s childhood as a closeted trans girl in the early 90s and offers a brilliant and scathing commentary on the cisgender gaze.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Katherine Packert Burke is a graduate of the Clarion Writer’s Workshop in San Diego and the MFA program at the University of Alabama. Her debut novel, Still Life, was published by W. W. Norton in 2024. She lives in Minneapolis, MN.
For trans folksinger Creekbed Carter Hogan, everything good is made from the rotten stump of something else – and thank god for that. With a solid grasp of traditional country and folk and a willingness to tackle deeply personal themes, Creekbed Carter has quickly established themself as one of the most interesting names in the emerging Outlaw country scene. For trans folksinger Creekbed Carter Hogan, everything good is made from the rotten stump of something else – and thank god for that. With a solid grasp of traditional country and folk and a willingness to tackle deeply personal themes, Creekbed Carter has quickly established themself as one of the most interesting names in the emerging Outlaw country scene. Their self-titled album (out now on Gar Hole Records) weaves stories of growing up religious around songs that pierce the soul and tickle the funny bone. Whether you hear them in a big crowd, at a Texas dive bar, or in a living room, Creekbed Carter is, above all, an act of resilience: a flaming sword that both creator and listener can use to cut their way out and through, together.