Sandy Allen - N.A. - (Iowa City, IA)

NFWP alum Sandy Allen will read from A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise . "A breakthrough in meta-biographical writing... [Allen] marries several distinct genres to produce an insight into what it means to be a person with a psychiatric diagnosis...Thrilling... Gorgeous... a watershed in empathetic adaptation of 'outsider' autobiography." – The New Republic A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise is Sandy Allen’s rendition of the typewritten “true story” of their uncle Bob, a hermit who sometimes showed up at family vacations, and who had spent time in mental hospitals while growing up in Berkeley in the 60s and 70s. In 2009 he had mailed Allen the typewritten "true story" about his being "labeled a psychotic paranoid schizophrenic," with a plea to help him get his story out to the world.