The Minnesota Writers Series on the Cambridge campus is proud to present our 2025-2026 guest writer, Emma Törzs . This event will take place on the Cambridge campus on the evening April 14, 2026  and is free open to the public. Details and promotional materials forthcoming. Emma Törzs is a writer, teacher, and occasional translator based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her fiction has been honored with an NEA fellowship in prose, a World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction, and an O.

In Everything Is Tuberculosis, John Green teaches empathy by illustrating the stories of individuals, past and present, who were plagued by the world’s deadliest disease: tuberculosis, also known as consumption. Henry, a young Sierra Leonean boy suffering from drug-resistant tuberculosis (caused by a pause in treatment), is introduced as a modern-day example of this disease, reminding us that it is still prevalent in many parts of the world: “Nothing is so privileged as think

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