Jesse Ball is the author of over fifteen books including Autoportrait, Census, A Cure for Suicide, and Silence Once Begun.  He is on the faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a winner of The Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize for Fiction, the Gordon Burn Prize, and the Berlin Prize, and long-listed for the National Book Award. Ball has been a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, NEA, and Creative Capital Foundation. Ball has been interviewed and his books have been reviewed in Harper's Magazine, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, The Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement, and elsewhere. In fall 2023 he will be University of Virginia's Kapnick Foundation Distinguished Writer-in-Residence.  Doors open at 6:30 PM. This event is part of Be)Holding Love & Loss: An Interdisciplinary Arts & Humanities Series on Grief.