VenueCarlow University  

Date11/11/2016 

Time3:30 PM - 5:00 PM  

Event TypeReading 

GenrePoetry 

SponsorCarlow University 

Cost $0.00
 

Description and Reader Names: The Madwomen in the Attic presents Writers on Writing: Diane Gilliam
Friday, November 11, 2016
3:30-5 p.m.
Carlow University, 3333 Fifth Avenue
Aquinas Hall, Room 106

Reading, discussion, and book signing
Free and open to the public

Diane Gilliam is the author of four collections of poetry: Everything Ever, Everything After (Red Hen, Spring 2017), Kettle Bottom (2004), One of Everything (2003), and Recipe for Blackberry Cake (chapbook, 1999). She holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College and a PhD in Romance languages and literatures from Ohio State University. She has taught Spanish language and literature classes at Kent State and Ohio State; creative writing, poetry, and Appalachian literature at Converse College; and in the low-residency MFA program at West Virginia Wesleyan University. She has also taught at the AROHO Writing Retreat for Women at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico; at regional writing workshops such as the Appalachian Writer’s Workshop in Hindman, Kentucky; and at the Highland Summer Workshop at Radford University in Virginia. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Crab Orchard Review, The Massachusetts Review, Cortland Review, and Appalachian Journal, among other journals. She has received an Individual Artist Grant from the Ohio Arts Council, the Chaffin Award for Appalachian Writing, The Ohioana Library Association Poetry Book of the Year Award, and a Pushcart Prize. She is the most recent recipient of the Gift of Freedom from the A Room of Her Own Foundation.

Supported in part by The Dorothy Louise Holley Endowment. Sponsored by Carlow University’s English Department, Creative Writing Program, and Women’s and Gender Studies Program.

For more information, please contact Sarah Williams-Devereux at sewilliams412@carlow.edu or Jan Beatty at jpbeatty@carlow.edu.

Primary Contact PersonSarah Williams-Devereux 

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