R259. Celebrating 15 Years of American Lives: A University of Nebraska Press Reading

Room 203AB, Washington Convention Center, Level Two
Thursday, February 9, 2017
3:00 pm to 4:15 pm

 

To celebrate fifteen years of publishing American voices, the University of Nebraska Press showcases five authors of literary nonfiction who represent the broad spectrum of backgrounds, generations, and writing styles indicative of the series. Working in diverse forms and points of view, these authors provide glimpses into singular American lives, and their work coalesces into a richly textured portrait of our contemporary culture.


Participants

Moderator:

Joey Franklin is the author of My Wife Wants You to Know I'm Happily Married, and his essays have recently appeared in Hunger MountainGettysburg Review, and The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction. He is an assistant professor of creative writing at Brigham Young University.

John W. Evans is the author of two memoirs and a poetry collection. He teachers creative writing at Stanford University, where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow.

Sonja Livingston’s latest book, Ladies Night at the Dreamland, is inspired by little known historical women. She is also the author of Queen of the Fall and Ghostbread, which won the AWP Prize for Nonfiction. Her work has been widely honored and anthologized. Sonja teaches in the MFA program at VCU.

Barrie Jean Borich is the author of Body Geographic, winner of a Lambda Literary Award in memoir, and My Lesbian Husband, winner of a Stonewall Book Award. She's an associate professor at DePaul University in Chicago, where she edits Slag Glass City, a journal of the nonfiction urban essay arts.

Joy Castro is the author of the literary thrillers Hell or High Water and Nearer Home, the memoirs The Truth Book and Island of Bones, and the short fiction collection How Winter Began. Editor of the collection Family Trouble, she teaches at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

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