MMC Alumna’s Break-Out Novel Acquired by Sight Unseen Pictures
David Goddard
Congratulations are in order for Class of 2010’s Kiley Reid whose debut novel was purchased in a ten-publisher auction by Bloomsbury and swiftly picked up by Emmy-award winner Lena Waithe’s production company, Hillman Grad Productions.
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Kiley, an Acting major and minor in Religious Studies, is currently pursuing a Masters in Fine Arts at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop where she was awarded the Truman Capote Fellowship. Her short stories have been featured and are forthcoming in December(opens in a new tab), Lumina(opens in a new tab), New South(opens in a new tab), Ploughshares(opens in a new tab), and others.
The novel, which explores the complicated nature of transactional relationships, of being a “grown up,” and of doing the right thing for the wrong reasons, is set to be published in Fall 2019.
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Congratulations, Kiley!
Published: September 11, 2018
MMC Hosts 11th Annual Philosophy and Religious Studies Conference
Friday, March 29, 2019: Students, faculty, and guests gathered in the Regina Perguggi room for the History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies annual conference.
