Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program graduate Tatatiana Schlote-Bonne will read from her YA horror debut, Such Lovely Skin. She will be joined in conversation by fellow NWP alum Jessie Kraemer.  Booklist says, “Schlote-Bonne’s debut novel moves fast and doesn’t slow down. Fans of Five Nights at Freddy’s and other horror games will undoubtedly binge this jump scare-filled story.”

“In mixing demonic scares, personal trauma, and online (and in-person) gaslighting this tense but fun novel feels like our very unsure, ambiguous now. I inhaled Such Lovely Skin, and now I’m even more afraid of everything.” –Paul Tremblay

Tatiana Schlote-Bonne received an MFA in Nonfiction from the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program.  Her essays have been published in F(r)iction, Dogwood, and The Los Angeles Review. When she’s not writing, she’s either gaming, lifting heavy weights, or teaching people how to lift heavy weights. Such Lovely Skin is her debut novel.

Jessie Kraemer is an essayist and visual artist. She holds an MFA in Nonfiction from the University of Iowa. She won the 2024 Mississippi Review Prize in Nonfiction, and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Chicago Quarterly Review, Brink, Speculative Nonfiction, Essay Daily, and elsewhere. Her essay “The Wright Brother” was listed as Notable in Best American Essays 2021. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Book Arts at the Iowa Center for the Book.