Join us for a discussion with Kelcey Ervick, Alice Kaltman, and Jesse Lee Kercheval, three writers who have ventured into the world of graphic memoir. Though their literary backgrounds span poetry, fiction, and biography, each has discovered the unique power of visual storytelling to capture their personal narratives. Learn about their creative journeys, artistic processes, and what drew them to combine words and images in crafting their unique memoirs. Whether you’re a writer, artist, memoir enthusiast, or simply curious about the intersection of visual and written storytelling, this conversation promises to inspire and illuminate.

Kelcey Ervick is a writer and artist creating visual narratives in a variety of media. She is the author of four award-winning books, including the graphic memoir, The Keeper: Soccer, Me, and the Law That Changed Women's Lives (Avery Books/Penguin), winner of a 2023 Ohioana Book Award and featured in the New York Times Book Review's Holiday Gift Guide. She is co-editor with Tom Hart of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Graphic Literature, and her comics have appeared in The Rumpus, The Believer, Washington Post, and Lit Hub. A professor of English and creative writing at Indiana University South Bend, Kelcey writes and draws stories about the creative life in her illustrated newsletter, The Habit of Art.

Alice Kaltman is the author of two story collections and three novels. Most recently, she’s published a graphic memoir entitled, Alice’s Big Book of Mistakes. Her historical fiction novella, Mother and Daughter Sit for a Portrait, will be published by WTAW Press in early 2025. Alice’s work has been nominated for Best American Short Stories, Best Small Fiction, and the Pushcart Prize, and was a Wigleaf Top 50 in 2024. Alice splits her time between Brooklyn and Montauk, NY where she lives, surfs, and swims with her husband the sculptor Daniel Wiener and Ollie the Wonder Dog.

Jesse Lee Kercheval is a poet, writer, and visual artist. Her most recent poetry collections are I Want to Tell You (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023) and Un pez dorado no te sirve para nada (Editorial Yaugurú, Uruguay, 2023). Her memoir, Space, was the winner of the Alex Award from the American Library Association. Her essays and graphic essays have won awards from New Letters and the New Ohio Review, and have appeared in Guernica, the New England Review, Sewanee Review, Fourth Genre, the Los Angeles Review, Image, the Chicago Quarterly Review and elsewhere. Her graphic memoir, French Girl, has just been published by Fieldmouse Press.

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