Author Visit: Sketchbook or Notebook: Exploring the Relationship Between Making Art & Writing Fiction

Rebecca Keller explores how writing—and different types of writing—overlap, and how these overlaps have impacted her thinking as a teacher. She is also particularly interested in inviting discussion from people drawn to explore /expand creative avenues later in life.

Books will be available for sale, courtesy of The Pile Bookstore, and the author will autograph books after the program. 

About Rebecca
Rebecca Keller is an artist, writer, and educator. After building a career as a visual artist and exhibiting her artwork widely, an idea for a novel took her by the throat, and wouldn’t let go. She set about learning to write fiction along with maintaining her visual art practice. She eventually published award-winning stories, including ‘voicing’ objects in museum collections, and after a lot of trial, and error and thanks-but-no-thanks letters, her debut novel You Should Have Known was published by Crooked Lane/Random House.

Keller is a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has lived in Oak Park for 25 years.