49 Writers presents a reading featuring Mieke Eerkens, instructor for the 2024 Tutka Bay Writers Retreat at Kachemak Bay Campus, Thursday, September 19, at 6:00 pm. This event is free and open to the public.

Eerkens will read from "All Ships Follow Me," a book about her parents’ experiences in WWII and the inheritance of war trauma. She has taught Creative Writing at the University of Iowa, UCLA Extension’s Writers’ Program, Amsterdam University, and Leiden University in The Netherlands, and currently teaches for the Iowa Summer Writing Festival and private workshops. She is currently working on a memoir about her younger years traveling with the circus.

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