Wayne State College’s Language and Literature Department, the School of Arts and Humanities, and the WSC Press are pleased to hold this Fall’s Plains Writers Series on Thursday, December 5, 2024. The Plains Writers Series is held several times a year to bring attention to the prose and poetry of Great Plains writers through reading and interacting with area audiences.

This Plains Writers Series will feature Amber Jensen. The reading will begin at 2 p.m. in the lounge on the second floor of the Humanities Building at Wayne State College. This event will be live-streamed on the Plains Writers Series Facebook page.

Following the Plains Writers Series will be the Fiction Slam. The slam will be held at the Max Bar and Grill in downtown Wayne, NE, starting at 7:00 p.m., with registration beginning at 6:30 p.m. Slam participants need two original stories and $5 registration fee. All events are free and open to the public.

ABOUT THE READER:

Amber Jensen completed her undergraduate studies in English and Spanish at South Dakota State University. After teaching English in Mexico for five years, she continued her studies in literature and writing, earning a graduate degree at SDSU and a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing through the University of New Orleans. Encouraged by mentors in both of these programs, Amber began drafting essays, finding homes for some of them in North Dakota Quarterly, Narrative Inquiry, at Oh-Dark-Thirty, and in Red, White, & True: Stories from Military Veterans and their Families WWII to Present. These essays are now part of her first book, The Smoke of You: A Memoir of Love During & After Deployment, published by MilSpeak Books.