Omaria Sanchez Pratt is a first year MFA candidate at UK. She graduated from the University of North Carolina, Wilmington with a theatre degree before moving to New York City where writing fiction became her passion and focus. She has been a barista, coffee roaster, literary intern, meat slicer, warehouse worker, sandwich artist, mailroom clerk, canvasser, and a few other titles not worthy of mentioning.

This story I will be presenting is “A Eulogy for Kevin Springer”

Abstract: “Kevin Springer was a bully up until the moment of his death…” goes the first line of this story which deals with grief, revenge, unfinished business, and brotherly bond. Set in a marginalized community, what does it mean to write people outside of the mainstream? Is it about the death of an unlikely hero? The lives Kevin has affected? A revenge tale for the bullied? This story explores all of these questions.

Discussion of 2 selections from The Social Life of Maps