Frances Bartkowski

Educator and writer Frances Bartkowski will present her novel An Afterlife at City of Asylum’s Alphabet City, held in partnership with the CMU Humanities Festival. Bartkowski has taught in both the English and Women and Gender Studies programs at Rutgers University-Newark and Columbia University. An Afterlife is her debut novel and takes place in the days just following World War II. The two main characters survived a concentration camp and make their way from their small Bavarian hometown to northern New Jersey.