Join us for a multi-library event on March 1 ~~ a fireside chat with Eve Ewing!

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Dr. Ewing is assistant professor at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration.

She is the author of Electric Arches, and her work has appeared in the New York Times, New Yorker, Atlantic, Washington Post, and many other venues.

She was born in Chicago, where she still lives.

Although the discussion is not of any of these titles in particular, Ms. Ewing's books include:

      1919, Ghosts in the Schoolyard, and Electric Arches .

Natalie Moore from WBEZ is moderating the conversation; she is the author of:

      The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation .

Ms. Moore is the South Side bureau reporter for WBEZ, the NPR-member station in Chicago, where she's known as the South Side Lois Lane. Before joining WBEZ, she covered Detroit City Council for the Detroit News. She has also worked as an education reporter for the St. Paul Pioneer Press and a reporter for the Associated Press in Jerusalem. Her work has been published in Essence, Black Enterprise, the Chicago Reporter, Bitch, In These Times, the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune. She lives in Chicago, IL.