The Kratz Center for Creative Writing is proud to present Abbey Mei Otis, author of the award-winning book Alien Virus Love Disaster. Reading and Q+A at 7pm in JR227 (Soper Room).

Abbey Mei Otis is a writer, a teaching artist, a storyteller and a firestarter, raised in the woods of North Carolina. She loves people and art forms on the margins. Her story collection, Alien Virus Love Disaster (Small Beer Press) was named one of the best science fiction books of the year by the Washington Post, and was a finalist for the 2018 Philip K Dick Award. She has received fellowships and residencies from MacDowell, Tin House, Millay Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, and the McKnight Foundation. She studied creative writing at the Michener Center for Writers, Oberlin College, and the Clarion West Writers Workshop. Currently she is making a living as an Artist-in-Residence at the University of Pennsylvania. She lives in West Philly, where her favorite days are spent walking her dogs in the woods, cataloguing which coffee shops are best for extended stays, chipping away at the novel, and dismantling the state.