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Fiction writer Jennifer Bannan will read from her new story collection, <\/span>Tamiami Trail: Miami Stories<\/span><\/em> (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2025)<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span><\/em>named for the road that connects Tampa to Miami. The Tamiami Trail cuts through the contradictions of Miami: a city shaped by swamps and skyscrapers, violence and desire. In her stories, Bannan brings us vivid portraits of women navigating this teeming, volatile landscape. Elaine Chiew of <\/span>Foreward Reviews<\/span><\/em> writes, \u201cClinging to their tangential morality by way of a mystical sense of place, the characters in<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Tamiami Trail<\/span><\/em> are flawed and full of want. Their grasping opportunism contrasts with the ineffable honoring of place and myth, thus revealing their naked humanity.\u201d <\/span>Tamiami Trail: Miami Stories<\/span><\/em> was included in the Best of October 2025 by the <\/span>Southern Review of Books<\/span><\/em> and was named a finalist in the Eyelands International Awards.<\/span><\/p>\n

A Q&A and book signing will follow the reading<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

This event is free and open to the Springfield College community and the public.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jennifer Bannan’s<\/strong> latest short story collection, Tamiami Trail: Miami Stories<\/em> (released in fall 2025), has received excellent reviews in The Library Journal<\/em>, among other publications. Her first collection, Inventing Victor<\/em>, was published in 2003 by Carnegie Mellon University Press. She has had stories in the Autumn House Press anthology, Keeping the Wolves at Bay<\/em>, and in literary journals, including the Kenyon Review <\/em>online, ACM, Passages North<\/em>, Chicago Quarterly Review<\/em>, Exposition Review<\/em>, Eclectica Magazine<\/em>, and more. Learn more about the author at jenniferbannan.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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