Meet the Author, eat and hear her speak! Everybody has One: A Tale to Tell with Lynn Levin featuring her Short Stories and Some Insights on Literary Politics Post October 7

About Lynn Levin

Lynn Levin is a poet and writer. She teaches English and creative writing at Drexel University and for many years taught creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania. Called one of the most “poignantly witty voices of our time” (Bucks County Community College), she is the author of nine books, most recently the short story collection House Parties (2023), named one of the best books of summer by Philadelphia Magazine, and the poetry collections The Minor Virtues (2020) and Miss Plastique (2013). Her poetry, fiction, essays, and translations have appeared in Boulevard, Ploughshares, Smartish Pace, Scientific American, Massachusetts Review, The Saturday EveningPost, and Michigan Quarterly Review. Her essay “What Is It like to Be a Jewish Poet post-October 7?” is forthcoming in Evolve: Groundbreaking Jewish Conversations. She has also facilitated ADVOT/Ritualwellonline immersions. Both Evolve and ADVOT/Ritualwell are part of Reconstructing Judaism. Her website is lynnlevinpoet.com.

About House Parties

The critical reception of House Parties is impressive. Philadelphia Magazine named it one of the best books of summer 2023 and praised the collection as "vivid, funny, and quietly powerful. House Parties may break your heart, but it'll never do it the same way twice." The Massachusetts Review says: House Parties offers the wisdom and humor of a keen eye and a kind heart. Lynn Levin writes beautiful prose so skilled that it seems unselfconscious while being replete with perfectly balanced sentences, brilliant metaphors, and similes. Levin's spirited imagination is a delight. These stories are amusing, startling, poignant, heartwarming. House Parties is a book to read, savor and return to again.