SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
The Creative Writer's Speaker Series Fall 2009
Free and Open to the Public
Thursday, September 24. M. Glenn Taylor.
6:00 p.m. in the Research & Economic Development Center (REDC), Room 002.
M. Glenn Taylor’s first novel, The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart, was a 2008 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection and a finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award. He teaches English and fiction writing at Harper College in suburban Chicago.
Thursday, October 1. Diana Hume George.
6:00 p.m. in the Larry and Kathryn Smith Chapel.
Diana Hume George is the author of The Lonely Other: A Woman Watching America and co-editor of The Family Track, an anthology of essays. An essayist, poet and critic, her other books include A Genesis, Koyaanisqatsi, Resurrection of the Body, and Blake and Freud. Her work has appeared in such publications as Best American Essays, River Teeth, Creative Nonfiction and MS. She is the former director of the creative writing program at Penn State Behrend. A recent visiting writer at Davidson College, Antioch/LA, and Ohio University, she is a co-director of the Chautauqua Writers’ Festival and contributing editor of Chautauqua Journal.
Thursday, October 22. David Baker.
6:00 p.m. in the Larry and Kathryn Smith Chapel.
(reception: 5:30 p.m. in the livingroom of the Smith Chapel)
David Baker has published nine books of poetry, including Never-Ending Birds, Midwest Eclogue, Treatise on Touch: Selected Poems, Changeable Thunder, The Truth About Small Towns, and After the Reunion, and several books of criticism, including The Radiant Lyre: Essays on Lyric Poetry and Heresy and the Ideal in Contemporary Poetry. He has received fellowships and awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, the Poetry Society of America, and others. He teaches at Denison University, where he holds the Fordham Chair of Creative Writing.
The Creative Writer's Speaker Series Spring 2010
Thursday, April 1. Debra Nystrom.
6:00 p.m. in the Larry and Kathryn Smith Chapel.
(reception: 5:30 p.m. in the livingroom of the Smith Chapel)
Debra Nystrom grew up in South Dakota, where she returns each year to family land along the Missouri River and on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation. She has published three collections of poetry, Bad River Road (2009), Torn Sky, and A Quarter Turn. Her work has received two grants from The Virginia Commission for the Arts; The Library of Virginia Poetry Award; and The James Dickey Prize for Poetry. She teaches creative writing at the University of Virginia.
Thursday, April 22. Brenda Miller.
6:00 p.m. in the Larry and Kathryn Smith Chapel.
(reception: 5:30 p.m. in the livingroom of the Smith Chapel)
Brenda Miller is the author of Season of the Body and Tell It Slant: Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction. Her newest collection of essays is Blessing of the Animals (2009). Her work has received five Pushcart Prizes and has been published in many journals, including Fourth Genre, Creative Nonfiction, The Sun, The Utne Reader, The Georgia Review, and The Missouri Review. She is an Associate Professor of English at Western Washington University and serves as Editor-in-Chief of The Bellingham Review.
Thursday, April 29. Joanna Howard.
6:00 p.m. in the Larry and Kathryn Smith Chapel.
(reception: 5:30 p.m. in the livingroom of the Smith Chapel)
Joanna Howard is the author of On the Winding Stair (2009) and In the Colorless Round, a chapbook with artwork by Rikki Ducornet. Her work has appeared in Conjunctions, Chicago Review, Unsaid, Quarterly West, American Letters & Commentary, Fourteen Hills, Western Humanities Review, Salt Hill, Tarpaulin Sky and elsewhere. Her stories have been anthologized in PP/FF: An Anthology, Writing Online, and New Standards: The First Decade of Fiction at Fourteen Hills. She has also co-translated, with Brian Evenson, Walls by Marcel Cohen. She teaches at Brown University.
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