F205. The Fifty-First Minute: Beyond the Therapist's Office and onto the Page
Friday, February 10, 2017
1:30 pm to 2:45 pm
Participants
Ainsley McWha writes nonfiction and freelances for local publications. Her MFA in creative nonfiction is from The New School.
Camille Chidsey is a 2016 Writing Away the Stigma fellow at Creative Nonfiction.
Heather Kresge is a literary and visual artist based in Pittsburgh, PA. In 2016, she was a Writing Away the Stigma writing fellow with Creative Nonfiction. In April 2015, Kresge won first place in the inaugural Alexandra L. Rowan Writing Award in Nonfiction at the University of Pittsburgh.
Christopher Collins is the author of the poetry chapbook, Gathering Leaves for War. He has published work in the anthologies No, Achilles and Proud to Be. A former “Writing Away the Stigma” fellow for Creative Nonfiction, he is a PhD student in literary nonfiction at the University of Cincinnati.
Elissa Washuta is a member of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe and the author of two books, My Body Is a Book of Rules and Starvation Mode. She serves as a nonfiction faculty member in the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts.