In Conversation: Joseph Earl Thomas & Prachi Gupta

Moderated by Karie Luidens | Building: Long Hall | Room: 204 | 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM

After the presentation, the author will be signing books in a tent outside next to the Information Tent.

Their books will be available at the bookstore in the atrium of Long Hall.

Biographies

Prachi Gupta is an award-winning journalist and former senior reporter at Jezebel. She won a Writers Guild Award for her investigative essay “Stories About My Brother.” Her work was featured in The Best American Magazine Writing 2021 and has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post Magazine, Marie Claire, Salon, Elle, and elsewhere. They Called Us Exceptional is her debut memoir.

Joseph Earl Thomas is a writer from Frankford with an MFA in prose from The University of Notre Dame. An excerpt of his memoir, Sink, won the 2020 Chautauqua Janus Prize. He’s writing the novel God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer, and a collection of stories: Leviathan Beach, among other oddities. He is also an associate faculty member at The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research.