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LC English welcomes hurmat kazmi to our LC English Fall ’22 Reading Series! hurmat kazmi is a fiction writer and playwright from Karachi, Pakistan. They are currently an MFA candidate in fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and have published fiction in The New Yorker, American Short Fiction, and McSweeney’s, and The Atlantic. Frank Manor House, Armstrong Lounge
When wellness teachers and husband-wife duo Chelsey Luger and Thosh Collins founded their Indigenous wellness initiative, Well for Culture, they extended an invitation to all to honor their whole self through Native wellness philosophies and practices. In reclaiming this ancient wisdom for health and wellbeing — drawing from traditions spanning multiple tribes — they developed the Seven Circles, a holistic model for modern living rooted in timeless teachings from their ancestors. Luger and Collins have introduced this universally adaptable template for living well to Ivy league universities and corporations like Nike, Adidas, and Google, and now make it available to everyone in their wise guide. In The Seven Circles (HarperOne), Luger and Collins share intimate stories from their life journeys growing up in tribal communities,…