Helen Raica-Klotz will read from her fiction collection, Superior Stories, winner of the 2025 Michigan Writers Cooperative Press Chapbook Contest. Helen's stories explore the lives of people who live in the northernmost part of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, the Keweenaw.
Bryan Gruley (award-winning author of Bitterfrost, Starvation Lake, and other novels) notes "Raica-Klotz conjures evocative settings and richly layered up-north characters with a language that is at once concrete and elegiac, painting a hard yet enchanting landscape.
About the Speaker
Helen Raica-Klotz teaches composition courses at Saginaw Valley State University in Michigan. She’s also taught writing at a regional prison, a homeless shelter, an alternative high school, and other places where she can find people with stories to tell. She is the winner of the 2025 Michigan Writers Chapbook contest for Superior Stories, a collection of short fiction. Her work has appeared in over 25 publications, including The MacGuffin, Porcupine Literary, Dunes Review, Muleskinner Journal, and Great Lakes Review. Learn more at raica-klotz.com.