The Department of Writing closes its Fall 2024 Distinguished Visiting Writers Series on Wed (10/23) with an in-person reading and Q&A with nonfiction writer and essayist Sarah Fawn Montgomery (Clark Lounge @ 7:00 p.m.).
This event will be hosted by students from the Visiting Writers' Workshop, a 1-credit course open to all IC students that offers an opportunity to study individually with each semester's Distinguished Visiting Writers.
Read more about Sarah Fawn Montgomery below:
Sarah Fawn Montgomery is the author of Halfway from Home (Split/Lip Press, 2022), Quite Mad: An American Pharma Memoir (The Ohio State University Press, 2018) and the poetry chapbooks Regenerate: Poems of Mad Women (Dancing Girl Press, 2017), Leaving Tracks: A Prairie Guide (Finishing Line Press, 2017), and The Astronaut Checks His Watch (Finishing Line Press, 2014). She also has a craft book on unlearning the ableist workshop and developing a disabled writing practice forthcoming with Sundress Publications and a short collection of flash nonfiction forthcoming with Harbor Editions. Her work has been listed as notable in Best American Essays many times, and her poetry and prose have appeared in Brevity, Crab Orchard Review, DIAGRAM, Electric Literature, LitHub, New England Review, The Normal School, Passages North, Poetry Foundation, The Rumpus, Southeast Review, Terrain, and numerous other journals and anthologies. She holds an MFA in creative writing from California State University-Fresno and a PhD in English in creative writing from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is an Associate Professor at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts.
- Essay: "Stain" (Shanendoah)
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