Conversation with Kyle Minor & Natalie Lima, moderated by Nathan Shuherk 

Kyle Minor is the author of Praying Drunk, winner of the 2015 Story Prize Spotlight Award. Recent stories, essays, interviews, and reviews appear online and in print in Best American Mystery Stories, Best American Nonrequired Reading, Esquire, The Atlantic, Salon, Iowa Review, Missouri Review, Story Magazine, and The New York Times Book Review. 

Natalie Lima is a Cuban-Puerto Rican writer and a graduate of the MFA program at the University of Arizona. Her writing has been honored in Best Small Fictions, noted twice in Best American Essays, and she’s received fellowships from Bread Loaf Writers, PEN America Emerging Voices, the VONA/Voices Workshop, the Mellon Foundation, Tin House Workshops, and Hedgebrook. Lima is an Assistant Professor of English at Butler University. 

Nathan Shuherk is a nonfiction book influencer, an MFA student at Butler University, and is currently working on his first book.