F107. Can You Go Home Again?

Marquis Salon 1 & 2, Marriott Marquis, Meeting Level Two
Friday, February 10, 2017
9:00 am to 10:15 am

 

Acclaimed memoirists and fiction writers will read excerpts from their recent work and discuss the challenges and rewards of writing about where they grew up. Discussion will include an exploration of techniques writers can use to reenter the emotionally charged territory of childhood and re-create the sensory memories and experiences of time and place in an authentic voice. Panelists will also address the ethical questions and conflicts in presenting one’s family and neighborhood of origin.


Participants

Alice Eve Cohen is a solo theatre artist and author of two memoirs, The Year My Mother Came Back and What I Thought I Knew, winner of ELLE’s Literary Grand Prix for nonfiction. She has toured her solo plays internationally. She has a BA from Princeton and an MFA from The New School, where she teaches creative writing.

Gayle Brandeis is the author of Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write, The Book of Dead Birds (winner of The Bellwether Prize), Self Storage, Delta Girls, and My Life with the Lincolns.The Art of Misdiagnosis (memoir) and The Selfless Bliss of the Body (poetry) are forthcoming.

Julie Metz is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Perfection. The recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship, she has written on a wide variety of women's and family issues for publications including The New York Times, Dame magazine, Huffington Post, Redbook, and Glamour.

Christa Parravani' s Her: A Memoir was a Wall Street Journal, Salon, and Library Journal best book of 2013. Parravani's work has appeared in The Washington Post, Salon, Marie Claire, Daily Beast, The Guardian, and Catapult, among other places. She is assistant professor of creative writing at WVU.

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