Mandi Jourdan
Publications Editor, SIU PressMandi is the author of six published novels, two short fiction collections, and numerous short stories. She earned her BA and MFA in creative writing from SIU , and during her MFA studies, she worked as a producer, senior editor, and voice actor for the first season of Blanket Fort Radio Theater, A Knight of Another Sort.
-
Journey back Inside The Blanket Fort as we continue our conversation with Carl Walworth and Glenn Poshard, the authors of Son of Southern Illinois: Glenn Poshard’s Life in Politics and Education. -
Journey back Inside The Blanket Fort as we go “Back to School with SIU Press” and discussing titles related to education. This week we explore Son of Southern Illinois: Glenn Poshard’s Life in Politics and Education
-
Journey back Inside The Blanket Fort as we start a new series. This month, we’ll be going “Back to School with SIU Press” and discussing titles related to education, from biographies to textbooks. This week we examine The New Star Chamber and Other Essays, Annotated Edition.
-
Journey back Inside The Blanket Fort as we continue exploring some of the books that are part of “Our American Story”—the books that detail the history of the United States and demonstrate that our nation is all of its people.
-
Journey back Inside The Blanket Fort as we continue exploring some of the books that are part of "Our American Story."
-
Journey back Inside The Blanket Fort as we begin exploring some of the books that are part of “Our American Story”—books about the history of the United States, from our military history to the histories of our people and the challenges they overcame to fight for their rights and to show that the United States is all of its people. In this week’s episode, we’ll start with some of SIU Press’s books about the U.S. Civil War.
-
Journey back Inside The Blanket Fort as we turn our focus on a group of books that recently won honors at the Illinois State Historical Society’s Best of Illinois History Awards.
-
Journey back Inside The Blanket Fort as we wrap up Pride Month with a look at two SIU Press LGBTQ+ rhetoric books: Jean Bessette’s Retroactivism in the Lesbian Archives: Composing Pasts and Futures and Eric Darnell Pritchard’s Fashioning Lives: Black Queers and the Politics of Literacy.
-
Journey back Inside The Blanket Fort as we continue our celebration of Pride Month with a selection of poetry books from SIU Press, including entries in our Crab Orchard Series in Poetry, a co-publishing venture with Southern Illinois University’s English department that began in 1998, and The Song of Eros, a book of modern translations of ancient Greek love poems.
-
Journey back Inside The Blanket Fort as we begin our celebration of Pride Month by exploring a selection of books by and about members of the LGBTQ+ community.
