Mary Helen Stefaniak

Events

Coming Up


Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Join Mary Helen for a talk "On Research and the Novel: Finding the Most Fascinating Facts and Blazing a Narrative Trail Through Them," in the Jerry J. Kollros Auditorium, first floor, University of Iowa Biology Building East on the corner of Dubuque & Clinton Streets, Iowa City, at 11:00 a.m. This Iowa Summer Writing Festival event is open to the public.


Monday, September 6, 2010
Official publication date for The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia, brought to you by W. W. Norton & Company.


Monday, September 27, 2010
Inaugural reading! Mary Helen Stefaniak reads from The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia, at 7:00 p.m., in Prairie Lights Bookstore in downtown Iowa City. Join her to celebrate the new novel.


Thursday, September 30, 2010
Mary Helen Stefaniak reads and talks about her new novel,The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia" at The Bookworm bookstore in Countryside Village, 87th & Pacific Streets, in Omaha, Nebraska. 7:00 p.m.


October 8 through 10, 2010
Look for Mary Helen Stefaniak and The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia, at the Southern Festival of Books, October 8-10, at the War Memorial Plaza and Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville. For details, visit www.humanitiestennessee.org.


Monday, October 18, 2010
At 7:00 p.m., Mary Helen reads from and talks about The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia, in Flannery O'Connor's historic home at Andalusia in Milledgeville, Georgia. Books will be available for purchase and signing by the author. For directions, go to http:/​/​www.andalusiafarm.org/​andalusia/​directions.htm


Thursday, October 21, 2010
At 7:00 p.m., Mary Helen reads at Next Chapter Bookshop, 10976 N. Port Washington Road, Mequon, WI. For information, call 262-241-6220.


Friday, October 22, 2010
At 7:00 p.m., Mary Helen visits Boswell Books, 2559 N. Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI. For information, call 414-332-1181.


Contact Mary Helen via this website to set up a visit--in person, by phone, or by email--for your book club, library, or festival. Or email mhstefaniak@​yahoo.com.

Selected Works

Novel (September 2010)
The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia
A hidden history of the South emerges when a worldly teacher leads Threestep, GA, to reinvent itself as “Baghdad.”
Novel
The Turk and My Mother
Hilarious and moving, a masterful debut novel about a Milwaukee immigrant family's secret history.
Fiction (short stories)
Self Storage and Other Stories
In these nine stories, “the familiar world is both funnier and sadder than it seems.”
--Kalamazoo Gazette
Short Fiction
A Different Plain
Short stories by Nebraska writers edited by Ladette Randolph, with an introduction by Mary Pipher
Creative Non-Fiction
In the Middle of the Middle West: Literary Nonfiction from the Heartland
A rich and comprehensive collection of literary writings about the Midwest.