The Writers Place Reading Series featuring Heidi Hermanson, J. Khan, Lynn Doerr

Lynn Doerr’s passion is exploration, and she has visited seventy countries/territories and created www.wanderlynn.com to share travel information. She has a degree in journalism from the University of Missouri and a master’s in marketing communications from Northwestern. When not airborne to another continent, Lynn is a consultant in marketing, writes articles for local newsletters, produces a travel newsletter, and is contemplating what to do with the fiction novel lying dormant on her computer for years.  Originally from Raytown, Mo, she currently lives in the suburbs of Philadelphia and published her first book, The Well Traveled Guide, in 2024.

J.Khan is a quiet Midwest poet happily living the immigrant's American Dream. He is the author of Speech in an Age of Certainty (Finishing Line Press, 2021).Recent  poems have appeared or are forthcoming in I-70 Review, Thorny Locust, Coal City Review, and Kansas City Voices. Book reviews have appeared in New Letters Literary Magazine. Khan served as a rotating guest editor for Glass: Poets Resist.

He holds post-graduate degrees from the University of Missouri and completed a fellowship at Harvard. For over a decade he has traveled to Honduras to provide volunteer medical services. Khan has three very different poetry books nearing completion: Popol Vuh, Thirty One Stories, and  A Prairie Wreath. His chapbook Speech in an Age of Certainty was published by Finishing Line Press You can order his book or learn more at his website www.JKauthor.com

Heidi Hermanson is a first-generation Nebraskan. In 2010 she won the Omaha Public Library's annual poetry contest. She organized the first Poets' Chautauqua at the State Fair, aspires to found a library of towns that no longer exist, and learn dialects of the 17-year cicada. Her collections of poetry are Waking to the Dream (Stephen Austin University Press, 2018) and Cocktails with God (Finishing Line Press, 2022). Upon finding herself with an abundance of time due to Covid-19, she documented and photographed nearby rivers and cemeteries.She has read at the Vermilion Literary Festival, the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City, the Roebuck Pub in London, and on the Bob Kerry Pedestrian Bridge over the Missouri River.