The Potter’s House is thrilled to partner with 1455 Literary Arts for a special conversation with Jeannine Ouellette, who will read from her memoir The Part That Burns.

In her fiercely beautiful memoir, Jeannine Ouellette recollects fragments of her life and arranges them elliptically to witness each piece as torn and whole, as something more than itself. The Part That Burns is a story about the tenacity of family roots, the formidable undertow of trauma, and the rebellious and persistent yearning of human beings for love from each other.

Jeannine Ouellette’s essays and stories have appeared widely, including in North American Review, Narrative, Penn Review, Proximity, and more. She is a former fellow of Millay Colony for the Arts and Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, and her work has been published in several anthologies including Ms. Aligned: Women Writing About Men and Women’s Lives: Multicultural Perspectives, as well as recognized in many contests. Jeannine teaches writing through the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop and the University of Minnesota. She lives with her family in Minneapolis near the banks of the Mississippi, where she is working on her first novel.

1455’s Founding Director Sean Murphy and the author will discuss the process of writing this book, which Joyce Carol Oates has called “simply beautiful…precisely imagined, poetically structured, compelling, and vivid,” and the contemporary literary scene, followed by a Q&A. The event will be streamed live to The Potter’s House Facebook Page, and audience questions are encouraged. Submit your questions for Jeannine ahead of time by emailing sean@1455litarts.org.

Purchase your copy of The Part that Burns.