Community invited to hear creative writer

Every spring, Lyons Township High School creative writing teachers welcome a professional writer to work with students and read excerpts of their work to faculty, students and community members. This year, LT is proud to welcome author and 2001 LT graduate Joseph Scapellato back to his alma mater Monday, March 13, in the North Campus Reber Center from 3:15 to 4pm.

Scapellato is an assistant professor of English at Bucknell University and holds a master’s degree in fiction from New Mexico State University. His work has appeared in Kenyon Review Online, Gulf Coast, Post Road, PANK, Unsaid, and other literary magazines, and has been anthologized in Harper Perennial's Forty Stories, Gigantic Books' Gigantic Worlds: An Anthology of Science Flash Fiction, and &NOW's The Best Innovative Writing. His most recent work, Big Lonesome, navigates through the American West—from the Old West to the modern-day West to the Midwest, from cowboys to mythical creatures to everything in between—exploring place, myth, masculinity, and what it means to be whole or to be broken. His debut book, Big Lonesome, will be available for purchase at the event.