{"id":519,"date":"2021-03-29T09:28:25","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T14:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/?p=519"},"modified":"2021-03-29T13:15:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T18:15:27","slug":"__trashed-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/2021\/03\/29\/__trashed-4\/","title":{"rendered":"John Medeiros Reads on April 16 From Self, Divided"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 MINNEAPOLIS, March 29, 2021<\/strong>\u2014\u201cNo one should have to face a pandemic more than once in a lifetime.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Medeiros has.<\/strong> Now, everyone can hear his compelling story, and applaud the accounts of his numerous triumphs in the face of devastating adversity. Medeiros reads from his memoir, Self, Divided, <\/em>in an online event for Quatrefoil Library on April 16 at 7:00 p.m. The reading is free and open to the public; advance registration is required via the library\u2019s Facebook page: https:\/\/fb.me\/e\/2vm5ig0iN.<\/a> Additional information is available on Quatrefoil’s website:https:\/\/qlibrary.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was on the eve of the COVID-19 pandemic that Howling Bird Press awarded the 2020\nnonfiction prize to Self, Divided, <\/em>by John Medeiros of Minneapolis. Medeiros\u2019 book\ndebuted in early 2021. Readers can now embrace Self, Divided, <\/em>participating fully in this\nincredible journey.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Self, Divided <\/em>is the amazing story of identical twins, one of whom is gay and Human\nImmunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-positive. Author Barrie Jean Borich writes, \u201c[the twins\nare] each part of a whole that will not divide, even in times of desperate separation.\u201d In\nhis beautifully lyrical style, Medeiros starts at the very beginning, when he and his twin\nbrother Bobby were created from an embryo cleaving into two in their mother\u2019s womb.\nHis frank, honest, brilliantly-written accounts of the twins as young children,\nthroughout the school years and into adulthood, contain both gentle humor and pathos.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Medeiros says, \u201cWriting creative nonfiction\u2014more specifically, memoir . . . is an act of\nunderstanding, healing, survival. . . . The story represents the narrator\u2019s struggle to find\nan identity completely separate from his twin brother\u2014an identity that includes his own\nhomosexuality and subsequent AIDS diagnosis.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An avid writer of poetry as well as creative nonfiction, Medeiros has an impressive list of\nawards and publications. Most recently, Self, Divided <\/em>appeared in Lambda Literary<\/em>\u2019s\n<\/em>\u201cMost Anticipated LGBTQ Books\u201d list. Medeiros is the recipient of AWP\u2019s Intro Journals\nAward, two Minnesota State Arts Board Grants, and Gulf Coast<\/em>\u2019<\/em>s Nonfiction Award. <\/em>He\nco-hosted the long-running Twin Cities reading series Queer Voices <\/em>as well as co-edited\nan anthology of the same name published by the Minnesota Historical Society in 2019.\nHis poetry book, couplets for a shrinking world <\/em>(2012) was a finalist for a Minnesota\nBook Award.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Augsburg University\u2019s student-run Howling Bird Press issues a nationwide call for\nsubmissions on an annual basis. The press launched in 2014 and is part of the Master of\nFine Arts in Creative Writing program at Augsburg University in Minneapolis, Minnesota.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Howling Bird Press publisher Jim Cihlar says, \u201cSelf, Divided <\/em>is a tonic for our times.\nLyrical, harrowing, and inventive, it details an experimental gene-therapy study at the\nNational Institute of Health led by Dr. Anthony Fauci, which involved sets of twins, one\ngay and HIV-positive, the other straight and HIV-negative; it also traces the coming-of-\nage and self-actualization of the narrator.\u201d\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Howling Bird Press publishes one book per year as the winner of an annual contest. The\ncontest alternates genres per year. This spring the press is open for submissions of\nfiction manuscripts. Our previous titles include Irreversible Things <\/em>by Lisa Van Orman\nHadley, Simples <\/em>by KateLynn Hibbard, Still Life with Horses <\/em>by Jean Harper, The\nTopless Widow of Herkimer Street <\/em>by Jacob M. Appel, and At the Border of Wilshire &\nNobody <\/em>by Marci Vogel.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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