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Summons and Return: How We Write Globally of Our Homes and Other Destinations
Friday, February 9, 2024
12:10 pm to 1:25 pm
How do we as prose writers navigate our current fragile and complex world? What stories do we want to tell with prevalent issues like global migration, climate change, class biases, limited gender roles, restrictive borders, hunger, poverty, language loss, vanishing histories, and the persistent question of American involvement to consider, and how do we best tell and nurture those stories? Five engaging writers offer advice for those who want to travel and expand their writing perspectives.
Participants
Allen Gee is the DL Jordan Endowed Professor of Creative Writing and editor of CSU Press at Columbus State University. He is author of My Chinese-America (essays) and At Little Monticello (a forthcoming biography of James Alan McPherson).
Oindrila Mukherjee is the author of the novel The Dream Builders. She is an associate professor of writing at Grand Valley State University. The recipient of fellowships from Emory University and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, she is a contributing editor for the literary magazine Aster(Ix).
Samuel Kọ́láwọlé is an assistant professor of English and African studies at Pennsylvania State University, where he teaches fiction. He is also a member of the faculty at Vermont College of Fine Art's low-residency MFA in writing. His fiction has appeared in several publications. HarperCollins will publish his novel.
Kerry Neville is an essayist and the author of the short story collections Necessary Lies and Remember to Forget Me. She is the coordinator of the creative writing program at Georgia College where she is also an associate professor. In 2018, she was a Fulbright Fellow in Ireland.
Faith Adiele is author of the memoir Meeting Faith, which won a PEN Award, and three hybrid chapbooks about being Nigerian/Nordic/American. Her media credits include "Sleep Stories" for the Calm App, HBO-Max’s A World of Calm and PBS documentary My Journey Home. She teaches travel writing around the world.
