Join us when Timothy Ryan Day reads from his new novel, Leaven.
About the novel: Sophia left her mother and brother in County Clare when she was only six years old to live in Chicago with her father, a draftsman with an obsession for baking bread from the base of a starter that had been in Sophia’s mother’s family for generations. Thirty years later, she is a neuroscientist working on mapping the human brain while recovering from the loss of a pregnancy when the world is plunged into darkness by a blackout which coincides with the launch of an important AGI system, Ariel. Alone in the dark, Sophia considers what led her — and the world — to this point.
The novel moves through collective consciousness, mythology, and the quiet, pervasive logic of fermentation.
Timothy Ryan Day is a Madrid-based writer and professor of creative writing at Saint Louis University’s campus in Spain. Born in Oklahoma and raised in Chicago after childhood stints in Colorado, Texas, and Georgia, he has taught at universities in the United States, China, France, and Spain, and is currently a visiting scholar at the Rachel Carson Center in Munich.
Day is the author of five books: the novels Leaven (2026), Outside Athens (2024), and Big Sky (2020); the poetry collection Green & Grey (2019); and Shakespeare and the Evolution of the Human Umwelt (Routledge, 2021). His fiction, essays, and criticism have appeared in academic, literary, and popular publications on both sides of the Atlantic, and he was a longtime contributor to The Nervous Breakdown and to the Madrid arts magazine Vaya Madrid.
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