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Creative Writing Events: Past Visiting Writer Visits
Nov 19, 2009 , 7:00 PM -- 311 Denney Hall
Visiting Writer
Linda Bierds
Linda Bierds numerous books of poetry include First Hand (Putnam, 2005), The Seconds (2001), The Profile Makers (1997), The Ghost Trio (1994), which was named a Notable Book Selection by the American Library Association, Heart and Perimeter (1997), The Stillness (1991), and The Dancing (1988). Bierds has received several Pushcart Prizes, as well as grants and awards from the Seattle Arts Commission, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Poetry Society of America, and the MacArthur Foundation. She has taught English and writing at the University of Washington since 1989, and was the director of its Creative Writing Program from 1997 until 2000. She lives on Bainbridge Island in Washington.Linda Bierds will read from her work on Thursday, November 19 at 7:00 p.m. in the Denney Hall Commons Room (DE 311). The reading is free and open to the public.
Oct 29, 2009 , 7:00 PM -- 311 Denney Hall
Visiting Writer
Amit Majmudar
Amit Majmudar is a diagnostic radiologist specializing in nuclear medicine. He lives in Dublin, Ohio, with his wife and twin sons. His first book, 0',0' (Zero Degrees, Zero Degrees), has been published by Northwestern University Press.Amit Majmudar will read from his work on Thursday, October 29 at 7:00 p.m. in the Denney Hall Commons Room (DE 311). The reading is free and open to the public.
Oct 15, 2009 , 7:00 PM -- DE 311
Visiting Writer
Daniel Anderson
Daniel Anderson’s work has appeared in Poetry, The Kenyon Review, New England Review, The Yale Review, The Hudson Review, Harper’s, The New Republic, The Southern Review, The Sewanee Review, The Best American Poetry, and Southwest Review among other places. His books of poetry include Drunk in Sunlight (Johns Hopkins University Press) and January Rain (Story Line Press). He is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Bogliasco Foundation. He is currently the Director of Creative Writing at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. (Photo by Miriam Berkley)Daniel Anderson will read from his work on Thursday, October 15 at 7:00 p.m. in the Denney Hall Commons Room (DE 311). The reading is free and open to the public.
Oct 13, 2009 , 7:00 PM -- Weigel Hall Auditorium
Visiting Writer
Francine Prose
Francine Prose is the author of fifteen books of fiction, including A Changed Man and Blue Angel, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and the nonfiction New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer. Her latest novel, Goldengrove, was published in September 2008. She is the president of PEN American Center. She lives in New York City. (Photo by Stephanie Berger)Francine Prose will read from her work on Tuesday, October 13 at 7:00 p.m. in the Weigel Hall Auditorium. The reading is free and open to the public.
Oct 2, 2009 , 4:15 PM -- The Blackwell
Visiting Writer
Rebecca Goldstein
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, a novelist and philosopher, was awarded a MacArthur "Genius" prize for her ability to "dramatize the concerns of philosophy without sacrificing the demands of imaginative storytelling." She is currently an associate researcher at Harvard University. Her second career is as a novelist. Her first novel was the critically acclaimed bestseller The Mind-Body Problem. She has received numerous prizes for her five other works of fiction. In addition she has published two non-fiction books. She has been awarded two honorary doctorates, a Guggenheim fellowship, and a Radcliffe fellowship, and is a Humanist Laureate and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Goldstein lives in Boston and in Truro, Massachusetts.Rebecca Goldstein will read from her work on Friday, October 2 at 4:15 p.m. at The Blackwell. The reading is free and open to the public.
Sep 30, 2009 , 7:00 PM -- DE 311
Visiting Writer
Stephen Elliott
Stephen Elliott is the author of seven books including The Adderall Diaries (September 2009) and Happy Baby, a finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lion Award as well as a best book of 2004 in Salon.com, Newsday, Chicago New City, the Journal News, and the Village Voice. Elliott's writing has been featured in Esquire, The New York Times, GQ, Best American Non-Required Reading 2005 and 2007, Best American Erotica, and Best Sex Writing 2006. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and is a member of the San Francisco Writer's Grotto. He is the editor of The Rumpus. (Photo by Lizzy Brooks)Stephen Elliott will read from his work on Wednesday, September 30 at 7:00 p.m. in the Denney Hall Commons Room (DE 311). The reading is free and open to the public
Sep 23, 2009 , 3:00 PM -- DE 311
Visiting Writer
Holly Goddard Jones
Holly Goddard Jones was born and raised in western Kentucky, the setting for her fiction. Her short stories have appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Hudson Review, Epoch, and elsewhere, and they’ve been anthologized in two volumes of New Stories from the South (2007 and 2008) and in Best American Mystery Stories 2008. She was honored with a Peter Taylor Scholarship at the Sewanee Writers' Conference in 2006 and was the winner in 2007 of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. A graduate of the MFA program in creative writing at The Ohio State University, she has taught at Denison University, Murray State University, and The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She lives there with her husband, Brandon, and two dogs, Bishop and Martha.Holly Goddard Jones will read from her work on Wednesday, September 23 at 3:00 p.m. in the Denney Hall Commons Room (DE 311). The reading is free and open to the public.
May 14, 2009 , 7:00 PM -- Denney Hall Commons Room (DE 311)
Visiting Writer
Jean Valentine
Jean Valentine, the current State Poet of New York (2008-2010), was born in Chicago, earned her B.A. from Radcliffe College, and has lived most of her life in New York City. She won the Yale Younger Poets Award for her first book, Dream Barker, in 1965. Her most recent book is Little Boat (Wesleyan University Press, 2007). Her previous collection, Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems 1965 - 2003, was the winner of the 2004 National Book Award for Poetry.Author of eight other books, Jean has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and awards from the NEA, The Bunting Institute, The Rockefeller Foundation, The New York Council for the Arts, and The New York Foundation for the Arts, as well as the Maurice English Prize, the Teasdale Poetry Prize, The Poetry Society of America's Shelley Memorial Prize, and the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
She has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, the Graduate Writing Program of New York University, Columbia University, and the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan, among many other places.
Jean Valentine will read from her work on Thursday, May 14 at 7:00 p.m. in the Denney Hall Commons Room (DE 311). The reading is free and open to the public.
(source: Jean Valentine Web site)
Apr 21, 2009 , 7:00 PM -- Wexner Center Film/Video Theater
Visiting Writer
Lucille Clifton
Lucille Clifton is one of the most beloved and respected figures in American poetry today, widely acclaimed for her powerful explorations of race, womanhood, spirituality, and mortality. She has published 12 collections of her poetry, one autobiographical prose work and 19 children's books, with more on the way. She received the National Book Award for Poetry for her book, Blessing the Boats (BOA 2000). Her most recent book of poems is Mercy (BOA 2005); other titles include Ordinary Woman, Quilting, and The Book of Light. Her work has been anthologized in close to 200 anthologies of poetry.Ms. Clifton has received many fellowships and awards for her poetry collections and children's books, including the 2007 Ruth Lilly Prize, Shelley Memorial Prize, a Charity Randall Citation, an Emmy Award from the American Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, selection as a Literary Lion by the New York Public Library, a Lannan Achievement Award in Poetry and a Lila Wallace/Reader's Digest Writer's Award. Ms. Clifton served as distinguished Professor of Humanities and holder of the Hilda C. Landers Endowed chair in the Liberal Arts at St. Mary's College of Maryland until her retirement in the fall of 2005. She continues to serve St. Mary's as Professor emeritus and Friend to the College. She served as Poet Laureate of the State of Maryland from 1975-1985. Ms. Clifton serves on the board of Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Lucille Clifton will read from her work on Tuesday, April 21 at 7: 00 p.m. in the Wexner Film/Video Theatre. The reading is free and open to the public.
(source: Blue Flower Arts)
Feb 17, 2009 , 7:00 PM -- Wexner Center Film and Video Theater
Visiting Writer
John Hemingway’s Book Talk about His Memoir Strange Tribe, an Exploration of Growing up Hemingway
John Hemingway, author and grandson of Nobel Laureate Ernest Hemingway, will read from, discuss, and sign copies of his critically acclaimed 2007 memoir Strange Tribe, which examines the similarities and the complex relationship between his father, Dr. Gregory Hemingway, and his famous grandfather. In particular, the memoir addresses the issue of Gregory Hemingway’s cross-dressing and sex reassignment and their connection to Ernest Hemingway.7:00 pm @ Wexner Center Film and Video Theater.
Free and Open to the Public.
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Feb 9, 2009 , 7:00 PM -- Ross Heart Hospital Auditorium 1213
Visiting Writer
Danielle Ofri
Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, DLitt (Hon), is an attending physician in the medical clinic at Bellevue Hospital, and Assistant Professor of Medicine at New York University School of Medicine. She divides her time between seeing patients, teaching medical students and residents, editing and writing.Dr. Ofri was born in New York City. She studied physiology as an undergraduate at McGill University in Montreal. She spent the next decade at New York University Medical Center and Bellevue Hospital for her medical and scientific education. She obtained her PhD in biochemistry along with her MD, followed by a residency at Bellevue in internal medicine.
After residency, Dr. Ofri spent nearly two years traveling. She worked as a free-lance physician in a variety of communities from East Hampton to rural New Mexico. These stories have been published in numerous literary and medical journals, and are collected in her first book, Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue. Dr. Ofri's second book, Incidental Findings: Lessons From My Patients on the Art of Medicine, was published in 2005 by Beacon Press.
Dr. Ofri's essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, the Los Angeles Times, and on National Public Radio. Her writings have been included in Best American Essays 2002 and 2005, and Best American Science Writing 2003. She is the recipient of the Missouri Review Editor's Prize for nonfiction and the McGovern award by the American Medical Writers Association.
Dr. Ofri lives in New York with her husband, three children, and dog. Danielle Ofri will read from her work on Monday, February 9 at 7:00 p.m. in the Ross Heart Hospital Auditorium 1213. The reading is free and open to the public.
(source: Danielle Ofri Web site)
Literacy Narrative
An interview with author Danielle Ofri during her visit to Ohio State University, 10 February 2009. Listen to the NarrativeJan 13, 2009 , 7:00 PM -- Wexner Center Film/Video Theater
Visiting Writer
Sue Miller
Sue Miller has written a collection of short stories, a memoir, and eight novels, including While I Was Gone, The Good Mother, and The Senator's Wife. She has won a Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, the Carl Sandburg Prize from the Chicago Public Library, and she has been nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, and for The Orange Prize. She has been a committed advocate for the writer's engagement with society at large through her work with PEN New England. She has taught fiction at Amherst, Bennington, Tufts, and MIT, among other places. She lives in Boston.Sue Miller will read from her work on Tuesday, January 13 at 7:00 p.m. in the Wexner Film/Video Theatre. The reading is free and open to the public.
Sue Miller Reading
Watch a clip of the readingLiteracy Narrative
A literacy narrative contributed by novelist Sue Miller during her visit to the OSU campus, 13 January 2009. Listen to the NarrativeNov 6, 2008 , 7:00 PM -- Denney Hall Commons Room (DE 311)
Visiting Writer
Thomas Lynch
Thomas Lynch is an essayist, poet and funeral director of Lynch & Sons funeral home in Milford, Michigan. His most recent book, released this past June 2005, is "Booking Passage: We Irish and Americans."Other more recent books include: "The Undertaking," "Still Life in Milford" and "Bodies in Motion and at Rest." He published his first volume of poetry, "Skating with Heather Grace" in 1987. Following this unique collection of poems, in 1994, he published his next volume of poetry "Grimalkin & Other Poems."
He is regularly featured on the op-ed page of The New York Times, The Boston Globe and The Times of London, as well as in the pages of Harper's. He has appeared on C-SPAN, MSNBC, the NBC "Today" program and the PBS series "On Our Own Terms."
Thomas Lynch will read from his work on Thursday, November 6 at 7:00 p.m. in the Denney Hall Commons Room (DE 311). The reading is free and open to the public.
(source: Thomas Lynch Web site)
Nov 5, 2008 , 7:30 PM -- Drake Union Thurber Theatre
Visiting Writer
Diana Abu-Jaber
Diana Abu-Jaber is the author of Crescent, which was awarded the 2004 PEN Center USA Award for Literary Fiction and the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award and was named one of the twenty best novels of 2003 by The Christian Science Monitor, and Arabian Jazz, which won the 1994 Oregon Book Award and was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award. She teaches at Portland State University and divides her time between Portland and Miami.Diana Abu-Jaber will read from her work on Wednesday, November 5 at 7:30p.m. in the Drake Union Thurber Theatre. The reading is free and open to the public.
(source: Dian Abu-Jaber Web site)
Oct 23, 2008 , 7:00 PM -- Denney Hall Commons Room (DE 311)
Visiting Writer
Mark Svenvold
Mark Svenvold's second book of poems, Empire Burlesque, won the 2007 Journal Award for Poetry and was published by Ohio State University Press. He was winner of a Discovery/The Nation award, and his first book, Soul Data, won the Vassar Miller Award, selected by Heather McHugh. A 2007 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Nonfiction, Svenvold has written about bicycle nomads for Orion Magazine; wildcat oil geology for Fortune; offshore wind power for The New York Times Magazine, tornadoes and the culture of catastrophilia for his book Big Weather (Henry Holt & Co, 2005); and unraveled the bizarre career of a Long Beach, California, fun house mummy in Elmer McCurdy: The Misadventures in Life and Afterlife of an American Outlaw, (Basic Books, 2002), movie rights for which have been optioned by Aaron Mendelsohn, with John Heder (Napoleon Dynamite) attached to star. He was Fordham University's Poet-in-Residence from 2002 to 2005 and is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Seton Hall University.Mark Svenvold will read from his work on Thursday, October 23 at 7:00 p.m. in the Denney Hall Commons Room (DE 311). The reading is free and open to the public.
Oct 16, 2008 , 12:30 PM -- Denney Hall Commons Room (DE 311)
Visiting Writer
B.T. Shaw
B. T. Shaw grew up in central Ohio near her great-grandparents' homestead. Now settled in Portland with her husband and children, she edits the poetry column for The Oregonian and teaches writing and literature at Portland State University and the University of Portland , as well as through writers-in-the-schools programs. Her poems have appeared in AGNI, FIELD, Orion, Poetry Northwest, the Seattle Review, Tin House, and Willow Springs. She holds a BS from the University of Oregon and a MFA from the University of Washington. This Dirty Little Heart is her first book.B.T. Shaw will read from her work on Thursday, October 16 at 12:30 p.m. in the Denney Hall Commons Room (DE 311). The reading is free and open to the public.
(source: Eastern University Press)
May 14, 2008 , 7:00 PM -- Wexner Film / Video Theatre
Visiting Writer
Amy Bloom is the author of two novels, two collections of short stories, and a nominee for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, and numerous anthologies here and abroad. She has written for the New Yorker, and the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic Monthly, Vogue, Slate, and Salon among many other publications, and has won a National Magazine Award. Her first book of nonfiction, Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude, is an exploration of the varieties of gender. A practicing psychotherapist, she lives in Connecticut and teaches at Yale University.Amy Bloom will read from her work on Wednesday, May 14 at 7:00 pm in the Wexner Film/Video Theatre. The reading is free and open to the public.
(source: http://www.amybloom.com)
Apr 15, 2008 , 7:00 PM -- 311 Denney Hall, Commons Room
Visiting Writer
Brian Evenson is the Director of the Literary Arts Program at Brown University. He is the author of six books of fiction, most recently The Wavering Knife (which won the IHG Award for best story collection) and The Brotherhood of Mutilation. He has translated work by Chrstian Gailly, Jean Frèmon and Jacques Jouet. He has received an O. Henry Prize as well as an NEA fellowship.Apr 3, 2008 , 5:30 PM -- 311 Denney Hall, Commons Room
Visiting Writers to Read from Their Work
Dinty Moore and Joe Mackall will read from their work on Thursday, April 3 at 5:30 pm in the Denney Hall Commons Room (DE 311).Dinty Moore(pictured left) is an essayist and author of both fiction and nonfiction books, including his most widely known, The Accidental Buddhist: Mindfulness, Meditation, and Sitting Still.
Joe Mackall(pictured right) is the co-founder and editor of River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative and co-editor of the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Prize Series (in partnership with the University of Nebraska Press). His memoir, The Last Street Before Cleveland: An Accidental Pilgrimage, was published in 2006 by the University of Nebraska Press.
The reading is free and open to the public
Read the expanded biosketches of Dinty Moore and Joe Mackall
Feb 7, 2008 , 4:30 PM -- Wexner Film / Video Theatre
Visiting Writer
Tom Perrotta is the author of The Abstinence Teacher, Little Children, Joe College, Election, The Wishbones, and Bad Haircut: Stories of the Seventies, among short stories, articles, and essays. Both Election and Little Children were adapted into critically acclaimed films. Perrotta co-wrote the screenplay for Little Children, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for “Writing – Adapted Screenplay.”Perrotta will read from his work on Thursday, February 7 at 4:30 pm in the Wexner Film/Video Theatre. The reading is free and open to the public.
(source: http://www.tomperrotta.net/)
OSU Library Resources for Tom Perrotta.
Photo by Debi Milligan.
Jan 8, 2008 , 7:30 PM -- Wexner Film / Video Theatre
Visiting Writer
Rosanna Warren is the author of Snow Day (1981), Each Leaf Shines Separate (1985), The Art of Translation: Voices From the Field (1989, for which she was editor and contributor), a translation of Euripides’ Suppliant Women (with Stephen Scully, 1995), and Stained Glass (1993, for which she was awarded the Lamont Prize from the Academy of American Poets). She has edited two volumes of William Arrowsmith’s translation of the poems of Eugenio Montale (Cuttlefish Bones, 1992 and Satura 1998), and three anthologies of verse by prison inmates (In Time with Teresa Iverson, 1995; From This Distance with Meg Tyler, 1996; and Springshine with Meg Tyler, 1998). Her most recent book of poems is Departure (2003).Other publications include The Notes of André Derain, an edited translation and essay, and articles on John Ashbery, Giacomo Leopardi, Gérard de Nerval, Stephen Spender, Derek Walcott, and Apollinaire.
In 2004 Warren received the Boston University Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 2006 she received the Ellen Maria Gorrissen Berlin Prize at the American Academy in Berlin. She received the 92nd Street YMHA/YWHA The Nation Discovery Award in poetry (1980), the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writer's Award for Poetry (1993), the Witter Bynner Prize for Poetry of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1993), and the May Sarton Award from the New England Poetry Club (1995). In 1997 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2004 the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded Professor Warren the 2004 Award of Merit of Poetry, given once every six years to an outstanding poet. In 2005 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Warren has also received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the American Council of Learned Societies. She served as Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1999-2005. In the fall of 2000 she was The New York Times Resident in Literature at the American Academy in Rome.
Rosanna Warren will read from her work on Tuesday, January 8 at 7:30 pm in the Wexner Film/Video Theatre. The reading is free and open to the public.
(source: http://www.bu.edu/uni/faculty/profiles/warren.html)
OSU Library Resources for Rosanna Warren.
Photo by Mike Minehan.
Nov 15, 2007 , 7:00 PM -- 311 Denney Hall, Commons Room
Visiting Writer
Allison Joseph is the author of What Keeps Us Here (Ampersand, 1992), Soul Train (Carnegie Mellon, 1997), In Every Seam (Pittsburgh, 1997), Imitation of Life (Carnegie Mellon, 2003) and Worldly Pleasures (Word Press, 2004). Her honors include the John C. Zacharis First Book Prize, fellowships from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers Conferences, and an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Poetry. She is editor and poetry editor of Crab Orchard Review and director of the Young Writers Workshop, an annual summer residential creative writing workshop for high school writers. She holds the Judge Williams Holmes Cook Endowed Professorship at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.Allison Joseph will read from her work on November 15, 2007 at 7:00 pm in the Denney Hall Commons Room (DE 311). The reading is free and open to the public.
(source: SIU Department of English Web site)
Oct 23, 2007 , 3:30 PM -- 311 Denney Hall, Commons Room
Visiting Writer
John Menaghan has published two books, both with Salmon Poetry (Ireland). Kirkus Reviews describes “All the Money in the World” (1999) as “an auspicious beginning” and the poems therein as “humorous, ironic, erotic, neurotic, and tender both by turns & often simultaneously . . . quite wonderful.” The Hudson Review calls his second book, “She Alone” (2006) "one of the best books of 2006," containing "fifty-odd lyrics, each in a different form, each handled with unobtrusive panache," "poetry with a human center," "smart and affecting," "utterly original," and "a book in which style and substance harmonize," & the poet himself "the real thing." And Midwest Book Review calls it "a unique experience in epic poetry and enthusiastically recommended." Menaghan is the winner of an Academy of American Poets Prize and other awards, and has published poems and articles in Irish, American, and Canadian journals. Menaghan’s one-act play A Rumor of Rain was performed at the Empty Stage Theater in Los Angeles (on the same bill with work by John Patrick Shanley and Neil Simon) in Fall 2006. His third volume of poetry is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry in Fall 2009.John Menaghan will read from his work on Tuesday, October 23, at 3:30 in the Denney Hall Commons Room (DE 311). The reading is free and open to the public.
Oct 18, 2007 , 7:00 PM -- 311 Denney Hall, Commons Room
Visiting Writer
A recent Guggenheim Fellow, Linda Gregerson is the Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan, where she teaches creative writing and Renaissance literature.Of her poems, The New Yorker has written, “Gregerson’s rich aesthetic allows her best poems to resonate metaphysically.” In her new volume Magnetic North, Linda Gregerson makes clearer than ever her passionate premise that the metaphysical only and always derives from our profound embeddedness in physical reality.
Of her critical work, Bibliotheque D'Humanisme has noted: “Here we have a detailed examination of literary style and achievement in epic poetry that brings Spenser and Milton more clearly into focus.”
Her poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry as well as in the Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, Ploughshares, The Yale Review, TriQuarterly, and other publications. Among her many awards and honors are an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, three Pushcart Prizes, and a Kingsley Tufts Award.
Linda Gregerson will read from her work on Thursday, October 18, at 7:00 pm in the Denney Hall Commons Room (DE 311). The reading is free and open to the public.
(source: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~gregerso/)
Photo by Nina Subin.
Oct 2, 2007 , 4:00 PM -- 311 Denney Hall, Commons Room
Visiting Writer
Lore Segal has worked as novelist, essayist, translator, and writer of children’s books. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and grants from the National Endowments for the Arts, and the Humanities. Her reviews appear in the New York Times Book Review and her stories in the New Yorker. Her story “The Reverse Bug” was included in Best American Short Stories, 1989 and won a prize in Prize Stories 1990, The O.Henry Awards. Segal’s novels include Other People’s Houses, serialized in The New Yorker and published by Harcourt Brace in 1964, currently available from The New Press, 1994; Lucinella (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1978); and Her First American, which won an award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (Knopf, 1985, The New Press, 1995). Segal’s most recent collection of stories, Shakespeare’s Kitchen, was published this spring.Among Segal’s children’s books are Tell Me a Mitzi, illustrated by Harriet Pincus, Tell Me a Trudy, illustrated by Rosemary Wells (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970 and 1979 res.), All the Way Home , illustrated by James Marshall, (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973), The Story of Old Mrs. Brubeck and How She Looked for Trouble and Where She Found Him , illustrated by Marcia Sewall (Pantheon, 1981), The Story of Mrs. Lovewright and Purrless Her Cat, illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky, (Knopf, 1985 and Atheneum, 2004), Morris the Artist, illustrated by Boris Kulikov, (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003), and Why Mole Shouted and Other Stories, illustrated by Sergio Ruzzier (FSG, 2004).
She translated Gallows Songs with W.D. Snodgrass, from the German of Christian Morgenstern, (University of Michigan Press, 1959), The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm with illustrations by Maurice Sendak (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973, revised edition 2003), The Book of Adam to Moses (Knopf, 1987) and The Story of King Saul and King David (Schocken, 1991).
Lore Segal will read in the Denney Hall Commons Room (DE 311) at 4:00 pm on Tuesday, October 2, 2007. The reading is free and open to the public.
(source: http://loresegal.net/)
Photo by Alisa Douer.
Sep 20, 2007 , 4:00 PM -- 311 Denney Hall
Visiting Writer
Mark Danielewski is the author of House of Leaves, The Fifty Year Sword, Whalestoe Letters, and, most recently, Only Revolutions: A Novel, a finalist for the National Book Award. He was born in New York City and now lives in Los Angeles. Danielewski’s work is characterized by experimental choices in form, such as intricate and multi-layerd narratives, typographical variation, and inconsistent page layouts.Danielewski will read from Only Revolutions on Wednesday, September 26, at 7:00 pm in 311 Denney Hall. The reading is jointly sponsored by the Creative Writing program and Project Narrative, and is free and open to the public.
In preparation for Danielewski’s visit, all those interested in his work are invited to particpate in a workshop on his novel, House of Leaves, on Thursday, September 20, at 4:00 pm in 311 Denney Hall. Four panelists will each speak briefly on Danielewski’s novel, followed by an open discussion. The panelists include Richard Fletcher (assistant professr, Greek and Latin), Brian Hauser (Ph.D. candiate, English), Chris Higgs (MFA candidate, English), and Paul McCormick (Ph.D. candidate, English); Brian McHale of Project Narrative will moderate the session. Jointly sponsored by the Creative Writing Program and Project Narrative, the workshop is also free and open to the public.
May 10, 2007 , 3:30 PM -05:00 PM -- 311 Denney Hall (English Department Commons Room)
Lee Martin and James Phelan,
May 10, 2007 - 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM -- 311 Denney Hall (English Department Commons Room)In preparation for John Edgar Wideman's visit during the week of May 14th, faculty and students from the MFA program and from Project Narrative (as well as other interested parties) will meet to compare perspectives on his work. The event will start with short presentations on Wideman's " Doc's Story" by Lee Martin and by Jim Phelan and then open out to general discussion of " Doc's Story" and of another Wideman story, "Everybody Knew Bubba Riff," and of the issues raised by the presentations. This event is open to all!
Pdf versions of "Doc's Story" and "Everybody Knew Bubba Riff" are available from Anne Langendorfer; simply e-mail her at langendorfer. 2@osu.edu to request them. Members of the English Department can also access the PDFs through the Shared folder on the N drive of the College's network. They are in the subfolder called "Wideman Short Stories." Finally, the stories are also available for copying from the shelf for course readings behind Raeanne Woodman's desk in Denney 421. They are in a folder labeled "Wideman--Project Narrative."
Feb 1, 2007 , 7:00 PM -08:00 PM -- Denney Hall Commons Room (311)
Student/Faculty Reading
Hear the poetry and prose by our MFA faculty and students.
Faculty: Erin McGrawStudents: Jason Tucker, Michael Martinez
Jan 11, 2007 , 7:00 PM -08:00 PM -- Denney Hall Commons Room (311)
Student/Faculty Reading
Hear the poetry and prose by our MFA faculty and students.
Faculty: Andrew HudginsStudents: Ida Stewart, Laurel Gilbert
Oct 5, 2006 , 7:00 PM -- 311 Denney Hall (Commons Room)
