The Distinguished Visiting Writers Series, supported by the Department of Writing and the School of H & S, is proud to host a virtual reading and Q&A with best-selling memoirist Terese Marie Mailhot this coming Monday (11/8) at 7:00 p.m.
Here's a little more about Terese Marie Mailhot (from her website):
Terese Mailhot is from Seabird Island Band. Her work has appeared in Guernica, The Guardian, Mother Jones, Medium, Al Jazeera, the Los Angeles Times, and Best American Essays. She is the New York Times bestselling author of Heart Berries: A Memoir. Her book was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for English-Language Nonfiction, and was selected by Emma Watson as the Our Shared Shelf Book Club Pick for March/April 2018. Her book was also the January 2020 pick for Now Read This, a book club from PBS Newshour and The New York Times. Heart Berries was also listed as an NPR Best Book of the Year, a Library Journal Best Book of the Year, a New York Public Library Best Book of the Year, a Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year, and was one of Harper's Bazaar's Best Books of 2018. She is the recipient of a 2019 Whiting Award, and she is also the recipient of the Spalding Prize for the Promotion of Peace and Justice in Literature. She teaches creative writing at Purdue University and VCFA.
Check out an excerpt from the riveting Heart Berries here (Granta).
Again, please REGISTER HERE to attend this event, to take place this coming Monday evening @ 7 p.m.!
