F210. Foremothers: Southern Women Writers

Liberty Salon I, J, & K, Marriott Marquis, Meeting Level Four
Friday, February 10, 2017
1:30 pm to 2:45 pm

 

Harriet Arnow, Carson McCullers, Katherine Ann Porter, Lee Smith, Alice Walker, and Eudora Welty form a powerful coalition of influences for five Southern writers of later generations. They will discuss how the work of their literary foremothers helped them write their way into an understanding of the complex fabric woven from social, familial, and emotional relationships, and how the voices of the South’s different geographic regions—Deep, Middle, and Upper—continue to inform and shape their work.


Participants

Moderator:

Charlotte Holmes is the author of The Grass Labyrinth, a collection of linked stories, and Gifts & Other Stories. Her stories have appeared in The Antioch Review, Epoch, Grand Street, New Letters, the New Yorker, Story, and other journals. She directs the creative writing program at Penn State.

Cary Holladay is the author of seven volumes of fiction, most recently Horse People: Stories and The Deer in the Mirror (winner of the Ohio State University Prize in Short Fiction). She teaches at the University of Memphis. Much of her work is based on the history and folklore of her native Virginia.

Lisa Jean Parker author of the book of poetry This Gone Place winner of the Weatherford Award for Poetry. She has an MFA in creative writing from Penn State, and she is a poet, musician, and photographer. She runs an Ops and Intelligence cell for the Department of Defense.

Lisa Roney is editor of the Florida Review and author of a memoir, Sweet Invisible Body; a poetry chapbook, The Best Possible Bad Luck; and the craft book (with anthology) Serious Daring: Creative Writing in Four Genres. She is associate professor of English at the University of Central Florida.

Adrienne Su is the author of four books of poems, most recently Living Quarters. A 2007 NEA fellow, she is poet in residence at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania.

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