Featured speaker: Sofia Samatar. A 1994 graduate of Goshen College, Samatar is the author of the novel A Stranger in Olondria, winner of the William L. Crawford Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the World Fantasy Award. She is also a Hugo and Nebula Award finalist and the recipient of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. She co- edits the journal Interfictions and teaches at California State University Channel Islands, where her interests include African and Arabic literature, Afrofuturism, and speculative fiction. Her new novel The Winged Histories is forthcoming in 2016. She can be found on Facebook, Twitter, and at www.sofiasamatar.com.

The breakfast is open to the campus and the wider community. Advanced tickets required. Before Jan 11: $18 per ticket or $144 per eight-person table. After Jan. 11: $22 per ticket or $176 per eight-person table. Please make reservations at www.goshen.edu/tickets or call 574.535.7566.