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Contemporary Writing at an Art School: A Reading by Alumni & Faculty from UArts
Thursday, March 24, 2022
10:35 am to 11:50 am
How does an arts-centric education affect a student’s development as a writer? How does teaching at an art school influence a writer’s approach to craft? This reading features work by alumni and faculty from the University of the Arts, a uniquely arts-based university in Center City Philadelphia and home to the region's only Creative Writing BFA.
Participants
Elise Juska is an associate professor of creative writing at UArts, where she received the 2014 Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching. She is the author of five novels and numerous short stories, which have appeared in Ploughshares, the Gettysburg Review, the Missouri Review, and elsewhere.
Rahul Mehta is the author of a novel, No Other World; a short story collection, Quarantine, which won a Lambda Literary Award and the Asian American Literary Award for Fiction; and a forthcoming collection of poetry and essays. They teach at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
Steven Kleinman is the author of Life Cycle of a Bear, winner of the 2019 Philip Levine Poetry Prize. He is the interim director of the creative writing program at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and a contributing editor and podcast cohost at the American Poetry Review.
Glorious Piner is a poet from Philadelphia studying poetry at the University of Maryland. Her work can be found in journals such as the American Poetry Review and the Florida Review. She cohosts a forthcoming podcast on the study and practice of literature called "The Speakeasy."
MeeRee Orlandini is a poet and fiction writer based in Philadelphia. She received her BFA in creative writing from the University of the Arts, where she coordinates the Pre-College Creative Writing Summer Institute. By day, she is an assistant first grade teacher at Germantown Friends School.
